We would be a little more fucked than just running out of good wine and facing the destruction of the French economy. Not every country has billion+ people to use as pollinators for its food supply.
To prove my point that it is perfectly alright to lend your friend a dvd or book, I emailed the IPOS (Intellectual Property Office of Singapore) but instead of a reassurance that it is alright, I got a reply that told me to consult my lawyer.
Whatcha askin mefore - Ah just work here.
Coincidentally, what you did might be a good way to probe potential employers in the government sector. Ask them a question pertaining to their supposed area of expertise. If you get an answer like the one you got above - that might be a great place to await your retirement playing solitaire at the expense of the taxpayers.
If any James Bond movie is to be referenced here, than it is either Die Anther Day or Diamonds Are Forever.
A solar-powered microwave-beaming satellite is a device for continuous use. GoldenEye is a single-use grenade. A very large, nuclear and EMP one though.
And people who can't grasp the possibility to use a quote describing one situation to describe another situation that is not necessarily 100% equal to the first and perhaps give certain inspiration and insight into the resolution of the problem being faced - should not get their panties in a bunch over quoting on slashdot.
Or maybe they should. Stress IS bad for one's health. As the matter of fact it reminds me of something that came to me during a nap.
And I had a dream that one day this world will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do."
I had a dream that all such people would die from high blood pressure, aneurysms or just plain shoot themselves.
I had a dream that they will leave no offspring behind, thus removing their genes from the gene pool and thus improve the human race.
Sending "watchers" first, robots, AIs, telepresence, etc, could avoid some of the risks, but will we have enough time?
If there is one resource we have a shitload more than we need or know how to handle its - people. Should we really care for their safety back on Earth? 1.8 people die every second. 106 every minute. Do we hold a minute of silence for those 106 every other minute? People are highly expendable.
Safety is not a problem. If you send colony ships time is also not a problem. Even technology is not really a problem - even now.
Problem is in the liftoff price per kilogram. Once we get it down to around the price of an intercontinental flight today - colonial-sized ships will start costing something like cruise ships today.
When we get it down to what it costs in gas to drive 100 km today - colony ships will be cheap as jumbo-jets are now. Only then - we will not be interested in going outside the solar system cause there is enough to keep us busy and well fed here for couple of centuries. Well... most of the people that is. Some of us will be busy digging habitat holes in an asteroid or two, strapping some engines to it and pointing it towards the nearest exoplanet.
From Letters from a Birmingham Jail, by Martin Luther King, Jr:
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
"Now, what is the difference between the two? How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law."
" One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
If I were to look up houses to rob on google - shouldn't google be liable for facilitating the services for me to do so? How about publishers of city plans? Local government for labeling streets and houses making it easier for me to rob a particular house?
Besides... You can't really prove intent. That is why there are no pre-crime units and that is why there are repeated offenders.
Wanted to point it out myself to all those that find "There are 10 kinds of people..."-line brilliant enough to keep copy/pasting it around but as I fall in that last group you mentioned...
Well I wouldn't steal a car and I wouldn't steal a handbag. And I wouldn't steal a cd from a brick'n'mortar stall. But I'd still download music from a pirate torrent tracker. Because that is copying and not stealing at all.
Sell it on ebay and donate money to TPB guys. Make a backup copy for yourself first, naturally.
Music industry doesn't get a dime from the sale, you get to "reintroduce" your used music back into the market, and TPB-ians get a small financial break.
So Kutcher is throwing down the gauntlet. In a video released on YouTube today (embedded below), he's promising to "ding dong ditch" billionaire Ted Tuner (founder of CNN) if he beats CNN to a million Twitter followers. What is a ding dong ditch you may ask? Well, it's when you go up to a person's house, ring their doorbell, them run away and watch as they look around to see who's there. Yes, it's kind of a wussy version of stuff they used to do on Kutcher's hit MTV show "Punk'd."
In releasing this to the Internet and tweeting it out, it's pretty clear that Kutcher wants to be the first Twitter user with a million followers. That should be enough to put him over the top, but he may need a little more help as singer Britney Spears also remains ahead of him (though slightly with just over 870,000 followers).
So, Tweeter user base goes something like this:
1 - News and politics junkies 2 - People of questionable music tastes 3 - Teenagers with no taste or imagination whatsoever 4 - Whatever the groups above feed upon
Her family and bank officials told her it was all a scam, she said, and begged her to stop, but she persisted because she became obsessed with getting paid.
And you sure as hell can't put it in your resume as "$400.000 worth invested in master's degree in fraud discovery and prevention".
Slashdot Mirror
Hopefully not.
We would be a little more fucked than just running out of good wine and facing the destruction of the French economy.
Not every country has billion+ people to use as pollinators for its food supply.
Nosema seems to be just a part of the equation - not the solution to it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_bee_depopulation_syndrome#Nosema
A study reported in September 2007 found that 100% of afflicted and 80% of non-afflicted colonies contained Nosema ceranae.
Link to the September 2007 SciAm article about the study:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=bees-ccd-virus&page=1
A parasite. Not virus or bacteria.
Breeding resistant bees is kinda like breeding humans that are resistant to tapeworm.
You kill or surgically remove parasites - you don't develop antibodies to fight them.
Sounds little early to be news.
One of the points of "the news" concept is the delivery of the information as early as possible and as soon as it happens.
That is one of the reasons we call it "the news" and not "the olds".
When did that happen and why wasn't I informed about it?
That would be like allowing Steve Jobs preside over MS's trial.
More like Steve BALLMER presiding over a Linux trial.
With the added bonus of Ballmer being the chairmen in such a case.
he joins lots of organisations so he has another piece of paper to hang on the wall.
I bet THAT was heard a lot in Nuremberg 60 years ago.
To prove my point that it is perfectly alright to lend your friend a dvd or book, I emailed the IPOS (Intellectual Property Office of Singapore) but instead of a reassurance that it is alright, I got a reply that told me to consult my lawyer.
Whatcha askin mefore - Ah just work here.
Coincidentally, what you did might be a good way to probe potential employers in the government sector.
Ask them a question pertaining to their supposed area of expertise.
If you get an answer like the one you got above - that might be a great place to await your retirement playing solitaire at the expense of the taxpayers.
You are a terrorist! Right?
Don't tell them that. It'll be much more fun that way.
If any James Bond movie is to be referenced here, than it is either Die Anther Day or Diamonds Are Forever.
A solar-powered microwave-beaming satellite is a device for continuous use.
GoldenEye is a single-use grenade. A very large, nuclear and EMP one though.
Popular music more popular!
Obscure music less popular!
Regardless of distribution method and media!
Also, sky is blue, water is wet, candy tastes better than cardboard and I am stating obvious things.
And people who can't grasp the possibility to use a quote describing one situation to describe another situation that is not necessarily 100% equal to the first and perhaps give certain inspiration and insight into the resolution of the problem being faced - should not get their panties in a bunch over quoting on slashdot.
Or maybe they should. Stress IS bad for one's health.
As the matter of fact it reminds me of something that came to me during a nap.
And I had a dream that one day this world will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do."
I had a dream that all such people would die from high blood pressure, aneurysms or just plain shoot themselves.
I had a dream that they will leave no offspring behind, thus removing their genes from the gene pool and thus improve the human race.
I had a dream today.
Sending "watchers" first, robots, AIs, telepresence, etc, could avoid some of the risks, but will we have enough time?
If there is one resource we have a shitload more than we need or know how to handle its - people. Should we really care for their safety back on Earth?
1.8 people die every second. 106 every minute. Do we hold a minute of silence for those 106 every other minute? People are highly expendable.
Safety is not a problem. If you send colony ships time is also not a problem. Even technology is not really a problem - even now.
Problem is in the liftoff price per kilogram.
Once we get it down to around the price of an intercontinental flight today - colonial-sized ships will start costing something like cruise ships today.
When we get it down to what it costs in gas to drive 100 km today - colony ships will be cheap as jumbo-jets are now.
Only then - we will not be interested in going outside the solar system cause there is enough to keep us busy and well fed here for couple of centuries.
Well... most of the people that is.
Some of us will be busy digging habitat holes in an asteroid or two, strapping some engines to it and pointing it towards the nearest exoplanet.
Well hey guys, you could have gotten away with it if your fucking name wasn't The PIRATE Bay..
And that would have made everything OK? Getting away with it?
Isn't that exactly what RIAA's and their lobbyists are doing? Getting away with it.
To quote another slashdotter, quoting Martin Luther King:
From Letters from a Birmingham Jail, by Martin Luther King, Jr:
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
"Now, what is the difference between the two? How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law."
" One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
Stay strong, guys.
If I were to look up houses to rob on google - shouldn't google be liable for facilitating the services for me to do so?
How about publishers of city plans?
Local government for labeling streets and houses making it easier for me to rob a particular house?
Besides... You can't really prove intent. That is why there are no pre-crime units and that is why there are repeated offenders.
I just want to say "thank you" for that sig.
Wanted to point it out myself to all those that find "There are 10 kinds of people..."-line brilliant enough to keep copy/pasting it around but as I fall in that last group you mentioned...
Well I wouldn't steal a car and I wouldn't steal a handbag.
And I wouldn't steal a cd from a brick'n'mortar stall.
But I'd still download music from a pirate torrent tracker.
Because that is copying and not stealing at all.
That music CD you bought some time ago?
Sell it on ebay and donate money to TPB guys. Make a backup copy for yourself first, naturally.
Music industry doesn't get a dime from the sale, you get to "reintroduce" your used music back into the market, and TPB-ians get a small financial break.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/13/ashton-kutcher-promises-to-punk-ted-turner-if-he-beats-cnn-to-a-million-twitter-followers/
From TFL:
So Kutcher is throwing down the gauntlet. In a video released on YouTube today (embedded below), he's promising to "ding dong ditch" billionaire Ted Tuner (founder of CNN) if he beats CNN to a million Twitter followers. What is a ding dong ditch you may ask? Well, it's when you go up to a person's house, ring their doorbell, them run away and watch as they look around to see who's there. Yes, it's kind of a wussy version of stuff they used to do on Kutcher's hit MTV show "Punk'd."
In releasing this to the Internet and tweeting it out, it's pretty clear that Kutcher wants to be the first Twitter user with a million followers. That should be enough to put him over the top, but he may need a little more help as singer Britney Spears also remains ahead of him (though slightly with just over 870,000 followers).
So, Tweeter user base goes something like this:
1 - News and politics junkies
2 - People of questionable music tastes
3 - Teenagers with no taste or imagination whatsoever
4 - Whatever the groups above feed upon
+1 Troll - my favorite.
Ah... those juvenile delinquents with mod points coming late to the party.
Aren't they cute?
If you kill everyone but the robots and the plants first.
It should be "Should expensive games be better".
FYI: Indie =/= Good
This is also an example of a "indie game".
...he likes salsa?
No... wait. You're right. He is a complete douche.
Not Ponzi, but scam is a scam - sucker is a sucker...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,453125,00.html
Her family and bank officials told her it was all a scam, she said, and begged her to stop, but she persisted because she became obsessed with getting paid.
And you sure as hell can't put it in your resume as "$400.000 worth invested in master's degree in fraud discovery and prevention".