BitTorrent exists to transmit large volumes of data between individuals without cost. This is an act which is often precisely counter to the intent of copyright, which intends to restrict the transfer of data to only the parties the creator intends.
BitTorent may not exist to protest Copyright law, but its continued existence is very much a protest of copyright law.
It makes little difference whether or not Rossi destroys this planet. Earth is a classic type 13 which typically destroys itself at about this stage in it's development. Sometimes through war, often through environmental catastrophe, but more commonly a type 13 planet is unintentionally collapsed into a pea sized object through scientists trying to determine the mass of the Higgs Boson Particle.
This is basically equivalent to requiring everyone to have a public and a private key, then signing the key of whichever candidate they want to vote for.
It would be a secure and verifiable system. However it would never work because it's not something that a normal voter would understand.
The only problem would be making it anonymous. If you required each person to have a new key for each election and had all keys signed by a central authority (recording only that a person already had a key signed, but not actually recording which key it was), I think it might be theoretically possible.
Also, since only the central authority can know which keys are properly signed, someone could always make a fake signed key, if someone were to try and bribe them into casting a specific vote. That way, even if the vote buyer required the person to cast their vote right in front of them, they'd have no actual way of knowing whether or not it was valid.
1. We don't fully understand the complex legal issues involved with creating a new currency system.
2.We don't want to mislead our donors. When people make a donation to a nonprofit like EFF, they expect us to use their donation to support our work. Because the legal territory around exchanging Bitcoins into cash is still uncertain, we are not comfortable spending the many Bitcoins we have accumulated.
3. People were misconstruing our acceptance of Bitcoins as an endorsement of Bitcoin. We were concerned that some people may have participated in the Bitcoin project specifically because EFF accepted Bitcoins, and perhaps they therefore believed the investment in Bitcoins was secure and risk-free. While we’ve been following the Bitcoin movement with a great degree of interest, EFF has never endorsed Bitcoin. In fact, we generally don’t endorse any type of product or service – and Bitcoin is no exception.
Although right now, 'mining' bitcoin is a fool's errand; it would be cheaper to just buy them than to spend the power mining them.
Actually, that's not true, at least not in every case.
Currently I'm mining on my gaming rig for about.5 bitcoins a day using about 8 kWh a day. Electricity hear is about 14 cents/kWh. The current bitcoin exchange rate is about 7 USD to 1 Bitcoin. Thus I recieve 3.5 USD worth of bitcoin for electricity costs of 1.15 USD. A three-fold increase over what I would get if I just purchased bitcoins outright.
However, I'm running on a gaming rig with decent graphics cards I already had. If I had to first purchase the items for the sole sake of mining, There'd be no gaurantee of ever being able to make back that investment.
Follow the link below, then copy the text(making the necessary changes to suit your needs) Then send them the complaint. Let them know that the customers upset by this aren't a tiny group they can just ignore.
On May 12, I tried to access thepiratebay.org at with my Comcast High Speed Internet for which I pay $(PUT DOLLAR AMOUNT HERE) a month.
Unfortunately, your service was inadequate because I was not able to access the site. I am disappointed because thepiratebay.org has typically worked previously, but as of today has failed to connect even though it appears to be working on all other Internet Service Providers.
To resolve the problem, I would appreciate your quick action in restoring access to thepiratebay.org.
I look forward to your reply and a resolution to my problem and will wait until Monday, May 16th before seeking help from a consumer protection agency or the Better Business Bureau. Please contact me at (EMAIL ADDRESS HERE) or by phone at (home and/or office numbers with area code).
Since driving is a privilidge, granted by the state, the state is free to restrict it in anyway it wants.
It's a funny thing. All my life I have believed that power came from the people; that we merely allowed the government to restrict our power in ways beneficial in preserving those rights.
So I would think that we automatically have the right to drive and that right should only be abridged within the legal framework provided by the constitution. Otherwise, all rights could be circumvented by declaring them to be "privileges." Unless you believe that the only rights we're supposed to have are those outlined in the Bill of Rights?
No where in the constitution does it say we have a right to eat. But of course we do. The constitution is not a list of the rights we have, It is a list of the ones we've agreed to give to the government, with everything not mentioned held in reserve.
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BitTorrent exists to transmit large volumes of data between individuals without cost. This is an act which is often precisely counter to the intent of copyright, which intends to restrict the transfer of data to only the parties the creator intends. BitTorent may not exist to protest Copyright law, but its continued existence is very much a protest of copyright law.
It makes little difference whether or not Rossi destroys this planet. Earth is a classic type 13 which typically destroys itself at about this stage in it's development. Sometimes through war, often through environmental catastrophe, but more commonly a type 13 planet is unintentionally collapsed into a pea sized object through scientists trying to determine the mass of the Higgs Boson Particle.
He could mean:
a+bi is "larger" than c+di if and only if a^2-b^2 > c^2-d^2 (i.e. N(a+bi) >N (c+di))
or
a+bi is "larger" than c+di if and only if a > c and b > d
The first one is better though.
It's called precedent.
This is basically equivalent to requiring everyone to have a public and a private key, then signing the key of whichever candidate they want to vote for.
It would be a secure and verifiable system. However it would never work because it's not something that a normal voter would understand.
The only problem would be making it anonymous. If you required each person to have a new key for each election and had all keys signed by a central authority (recording only that a person already had a key signed, but not actually recording which key it was), I think it might be theoretically possible.
Also, since only the central authority can know which keys are properly signed, someone could always make a fake signed key, if someone were to try and bribe them into casting a specific vote. That way, even if the vote buyer required the person to cast their vote right in front of them, they'd have no actual way of knowing whether or not it was valid.
Alas, if only everyone was a cryptonerd.
1. We don't fully understand the complex legal issues involved with creating a new currency system.
2.We don't want to mislead our donors. When people make a donation to a nonprofit like EFF, they expect us to use their donation to support our work. Because the legal territory around exchanging Bitcoins into cash is still uncertain, we are not comfortable spending the many Bitcoins we have accumulated.
3. People were misconstruing our acceptance of Bitcoins as an endorsement of Bitcoin. We were concerned that some people may have participated in the Bitcoin project specifically because EFF accepted Bitcoins, and perhaps they therefore believed the investment in Bitcoins was secure and risk-free. While we’ve been following the Bitcoin movement with a great degree of interest, EFF has never endorsed Bitcoin. In fact, we generally don’t endorse any type of product or service – and Bitcoin is no exception.
Although right now, 'mining' bitcoin is a fool's errand; it would be cheaper to just buy them than to spend the power mining them.
Actually, that's not true, at least not in every case.
Currently I'm mining on my gaming rig for about .5 bitcoins a day using about 8 kWh a day. Electricity hear is about 14 cents/kWh. The current bitcoin exchange rate is about 7 USD to 1 Bitcoin. Thus I recieve 3.5 USD worth of bitcoin for electricity costs of 1.15 USD. A three-fold increase over what I would get if I just purchased bitcoins outright.
However, I'm running on a gaming rig with decent graphics cards I already had. If I had to first purchase the items for the sole sake of mining, There'd be no gaurantee of ever being able to make back that investment.
http://www.comcastsupport.com/redirects/com/useremailstartcom.asp
Dear Comcast Customer Support:
Re: Blocking the Pirate Bay.
On May 12, I tried to access thepiratebay.org at with my Comcast High Speed Internet for which I pay $(PUT DOLLAR AMOUNT HERE) a month.
Unfortunately, your service was inadequate because I was not able to access the site. I am disappointed because thepiratebay.org has typically worked previously, but as of today has failed to connect even though it appears to be working on all other Internet Service Providers.
To resolve the problem, I would appreciate your quick action in restoring access to thepiratebay.org.
I look forward to your reply and a resolution to my problem and will wait until Monday, May 16th before seeking help from a consumer protection agency or the Better Business Bureau. Please contact me at (EMAIL ADDRESS HERE) or by phone at (home and/or office numbers with area code).
Sincerely,
Your name
I'm not sure what universe you're in, but in this universe Sliders was the best.
Since driving is a privilidge, granted by the state, the state is free to restrict it in anyway it wants.
It's a funny thing. All my life I have believed that power came from the people; that we merely allowed the government to restrict our power in ways beneficial in preserving those rights.
So I would think that we automatically have the right to drive and that right should only be abridged within the legal framework provided by the constitution. Otherwise, all rights could be circumvented by declaring them to be "privileges." Unless you believe that the only rights we're supposed to have are those outlined in the Bill of Rights? No where in the constitution does it say we have a right to eat. But of course we do. The constitution is not a list of the rights we have, It is a list of the ones we've agreed to give to the government, with everything not mentioned held in reserve.