That is like the least obvious Venture Brothers reference in the world. Like, me and two other people, one of whom is you, got the joke.
Hot Planet indeed.
Driving and War seem to actually be the causes of climate change. So by climate change now driving countries to war, we have entered a stage not unlike a panic disorder, where everything circles back around to cause itself, perpetually.
Like panic disorder, I fear we may not notice this til we're too late.
You can also patent mathematical formulas (with varying degrees of success) and the DNA of lifeforms. Oh, and im pretty sure amazon patented forks the other day. I may be wrong.
The biggest problem I can see is that when military leaders order atrocities, it wont be the rank and file soldiers who get the blame; itll be the people who made the drones. Easier to replace technicians than frontline soldiers. Ultimate Military Result: Unchanged.
How many people who should be making advancements that, you know, actually arent stupid? I mean these sorta things arent easy, and theyre useful, but that doesnt mean they aren't stupid and pointless and temptng educated scientists away from more important matters to the replication of consumer goods....Actually, I had more to say, but I got this sinking feeling in my stomach after writing that. I suddenly became very depressed.
But we should be doing many of the things the comission said. But this is a good one especially. If we're going to have emergency services, why would we keep them on a line thats subject to being overwhelmed in the event of an emergency of catastrophic proportions?
to superid: You wont be listening to any more radios, unless something along the lines of a massive terrorist attack happens. Then, with those radios being overwhelmed, you wont be left to stramble and make choices with anything but a local view of the immediate situation.
Says right in the slashdot summary. Thats the major purpose of the network. Not so people who can already communicate well do, but to bring mor epeople on, without fear of the slew of services that manifest in the wake of a disaster being overwhelmed.
Its really, really important if your night suddenly goes from "dehydrated kid with syncope" (by the way, who breaks into a small town EMT center in winter? Cold IV fluids certainly wake you up. jerk vandals.) to "level 5 hurricane" or "large fireball downtown" to be able to communicate in the now heavily used communications networks.
Just sayin'
is what we call it, not piracy. If you own the game, you can own the ROM.
At least thats what the rom sites i certainly have never visited or downloaded in mass quantities tell me. At least, I assume thats what they tell me. I wouldnt know since ive never gone to those sites. Infact ive never even heard of this "rom" thing. You have to tell me if youre a cop you know! I CANT BE COURT MARTIALED TWICE.
Do what they always have. What all our governments always do: ignore the fact that people are commiting war crimes. Dont address the problems of real day to day worry. Instead, they seem much happier wasting resources to prosecute people who *are not bad people.*
That gets left out too often. WAY too often. These are not bad people; not really. They didnt do anything wrong that actually matters. Sure, yeah, commited "crimes." Of course, in the real world, this crime amounts to...well, imagine a farmer. with 50 acres of land. Around one end he has a fence, saying "Private Property." at the other side however, wel, he hasnt gotten around to building that fence yet. So claerly he can murder anyone who comes passed this unmarked line.
Its not Anonymous/whoevers fault that our governments have decided to be as ridiculously insecure in their data as is possible, in every area of every system.
Corruption is rampant. War is being waged. Rights are being eroded. law enforcement becoming just enforcers. Criminals at the heads of multinational corporations destroying the world, cutting mountains into dust. Pollution filling our sky and our land and our water with crap. Even if you dont think climate change is real, surely you can see the problem in dumping things that kill people into our air. Its not like it has anywhere else to go.
So right now, heres how it looks: The UK government and private citizens had their phones and computers hacked by Rupert Murdoch's media outlet. Crimes were hindered by their efforts to get the news from the phones. and what does the UK do? Focus on a "spokesman" for a group who probably hasnt actually commited a crime.
Way to go, UK. Between Murdoch and that jerk in charg of BP, you clearly made the right choice: Arrest some guy no one knows who could never even begin to cause the sort of damage the real criminals do.
These guys arent bad people, again, its really important: They are NOT bad people. The bad people are the ones arresting people for nonsense reason, are the ones who ripped off the global economy. are the ones who started andengaged in illegal wars. Not this group. But you can bet they'll do everything to get attention away from Murdoch's monsters and the corporate pirates running us into a wall.
How many Murdoch outlets do you think will cover this and never again mention, yo know, the horrible crimes they commited, like torture. Like letting mercenaries act as mobile soverign territory. No, this is not what matters. What matters is some guy from some group whos name most people cant even pronounce because he allegedly decided to be a spokesman for a group.
So, my advice to the UK and all others is as follows: Stop being whiny jerks,stop ignoring the issues and STOP SHOOTING THE MESSANGER.
Sheesh.
(Please to note: when I use general terms like "to the UK" i am intending my words to be directed at the agencies in question, not over the UK as a whole; that would be silly and wrong.)
First off all: Are you really that ignorant? Sorry that was the best way i could put this.Have you seen a modern high security prison? You know, for people who murder, people who rape, and people who smoke pot? kinda have to coordinate that stuff when everyone in your prison is a murderer and hates every other faction in the prison, also murderers.
Still, I'm hoping this succeeds. It would be better for us to shut down all our prisons and releas eall the prisoners, than to force such a horrid existance on an innocent person. As we have murderd innocent people, stolen decades of their life.
And yes, im serious. Those jerks who commit crimes are jerks. When we execute or punish people who did no wrong, we should feel horrible. But its marked up to collateral damage...I like to ask people (my parents and boyfriend) "So, You'd be okay with me being executed for a crime i did not commit and you know i did not commit, because the system works most of the time?"
Ive always been good with heartstrings. Though it makes for a very messy rendition of cat's cradle, and no one i play with has made it to the end.
I wish I could rememeb rwhat my original point for this comment was though.
Apparently, if you throw enough money at something, it happens. Especially if someone can operate at a loss until it prospers.
Microsoft and their X-Box strategy was a good example.
They did with ADHD, they did it with depression, they did it with erections. Watch out for those anti-psychotics though; a large number cause weight gain, which is not good.
It seems like the only good reason for these issues would be, being up when most people are not, and sleeping is hard when most people are wide awake. I think that we should basically just decide, screw it, our days are actually 24 hours. Its already going that way after all. Plus we'd have like a bazillion new jobs without much new cost, and people who like being up at night can do so rather than people who prefer being up in the day.
People will actually take this seriously, and will rarely ever leave bizarre porn and personal information on old computers again. I for one can't wait to see what happens when you hit one of these with a golf club or put it in a microwave.
Well I for one am GLAD. Yes you heard me. In these times of uncertainty, fear, confusion and doubt, its comforting to know the people who cliam to protect me are stealing my things. Where else are you gonna get such a predictable, consistent outcome? In a way, its actually comforting.
People seem to forget their history. What happend when Soviet Russia collapsed? That right, they didnt destroy the world economy.
Now, what happend when the economy here in the US went bad? It crashed the rest of the world too. That was capitalism's work. Capitalism failed even harder than communism did. And yet its cheerleaders remain because...I dont know why, they havent bothered to pay attention to anything before 2007 id assume. Its the only explination that they wouldnt get this simple truth.
First of all, yeah, crime is lower now then its been, like..ever. Second, we already have WAY TOO MANY people in prison. Third, cancelling all the drugwar related things (prisons, police raids, innocents killed by police, drug cartels) would bring us a lot more money. Prisons are expensive.
Fourth, of course, just see Wisconsin. The corporate owned prisons there have done an impeccable job: now that they cant collectively bargain in Wisconsin, they have to use Slave Labor to do so. I cant think of any other word for prisoners being given to corporations to work for ZERO money, and considering how many innocent people are in jail it means that, even if doing that to prisoners was okay (It-Is-Not.) then we'd be enslaving innocent people!
Buuut no one really cared when I said the same thing about using the death sentence to kill innocent people. SO I dont expect this to push it over the edge...My boyfriend used to be in favor of such a penalty. I asked him, "So itd be okay if I was killed by the state, because the system is mostly good?" Felt like a bit of a jerk after saying it but i got the point across.
These atrocities have to end. And the corporations have managed to get everyone whiupped up in false fear, to the point where ANY reduciton of "crime" fighting (hurting innocents in victimless crimes) will be used as fodder in politics.
One more thing, just to make sure it is absolutely clear : Crime Rates Are Very Very Very Very Low. VERY LOW. *Very low!* and so on. Dont believe the hype. We're all in danger of being the next dead or enslaved innocent. And we always will be until we end this abomination
I wonder why they dont just try to patent photons and waves? Our patent system would almost definetly let them. Considering how greedy, stupid and completely out of touch distributors are, I fully anticipate them suing us for unauthorized electrochemical distribution of Caribbean Blue.
And its been bothering me. I mean have you seen those hand gels people are always slathering on? They seem to forget the.1% that it doesnt kill. Its like, congrats, you just made your hands a cess pool by removing all the competition a microbe that is already resistant to our best efforts would normally have!
The only thing that nears that level of stupidity would be preemptively dosing all our herd animals with anitbiotics by default. But thats so insanely reckless that theres no way wed ever allow it....We do? Oh. Thats not good.:/
Of course the problem with that is that in less than 100 years we went from blubbering all our communications into space to near silence, and we should assume that others would make similar leaps.
Right now we could use it for our biggest threat: Compiling data on asteroids and comets to find those which are most at threat to earth.
We could use it to monitor solar flare activity and magnetic field fluctuations on a planetary scale.
Or we could use it to help make a larger scale model of the earth to help predict climate and plate tectonics
Really we shouldnt have done this in the first place. I propose we transfer all rights for bittorrent and mutorrent to Tranz-Send. That includes all responsibility for them. Then we just let the telecomms sue them into nonexistance, force them to sell the patent for a pittance, while humiliating him and pointing out the illogic in our current patent system, all while stripping the ill-gotten gains from the exploiting tranz-send.
Its a great idea. The people love a Seven in One Stroke, and thats exactly what we could get. Legal channels sure dont do jack about it, so we may as well start getting creative.
Bugs are inevitable. You can never be sure you you dont have bugs. Hows your head doing? Sure you didnt replace that period with a decimal? What, youre gonna run checking software? Thats all well and good once you can know tha tit will always report correct values. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilemma for the faults in your reasoning.
I dont get this definition of hacking. At all. It seems to share the definition of "Life" or "Doing stuff with stuff." Its among the most bizarre names for a very simple idea that i know of. You should check out my room. Ive hacked my enviornment so that, instead of a lack of oxygen causing panic, my breath refelx works off rising Co2 levels!
Or, hey, I hacked this peice of wood by hacking some metal and hacked myself a table whih my hacked physics box hacks on. It seems completely redundant.
Slashdot Mirror
That is like the least obvious Venture Brothers reference in the world. Like, me and two other people, one of whom is you, got the joke. Hot Planet indeed.
Driving and War seem to actually be the causes of climate change. So by climate change now driving countries to war, we have entered a stage not unlike a panic disorder, where everything circles back around to cause itself, perpetually. Like panic disorder, I fear we may not notice this til we're too late.
You can also patent mathematical formulas (with varying degrees of success) and the DNA of lifeforms. Oh, and im pretty sure amazon patented forks the other day. I may be wrong.
The biggest problem I can see is that when military leaders order atrocities, it wont be the rank and file soldiers who get the blame; itll be the people who made the drones. Easier to replace technicians than frontline soldiers. Ultimate Military Result: Unchanged.
How many people who should be making advancements that, you know, actually arent stupid? I mean these sorta things arent easy, and theyre useful, but that doesnt mean they aren't stupid and pointless and temptng educated scientists away from more important matters to the replication of consumer goods. ...Actually, I had more to say, but I got this sinking feeling in my stomach after writing that. I suddenly became very depressed.
But we should be doing many of the things the comission said. But this is a good one especially. If we're going to have emergency services, why would we keep them on a line thats subject to being overwhelmed in the event of an emergency of catastrophic proportions? to superid: You wont be listening to any more radios, unless something along the lines of a massive terrorist attack happens. Then, with those radios being overwhelmed, you wont be left to stramble and make choices with anything but a local view of the immediate situation. Says right in the slashdot summary. Thats the major purpose of the network. Not so people who can already communicate well do, but to bring mor epeople on, without fear of the slew of services that manifest in the wake of a disaster being overwhelmed. Its really, really important if your night suddenly goes from "dehydrated kid with syncope" (by the way, who breaks into a small town EMT center in winter? Cold IV fluids certainly wake you up. jerk vandals.) to "level 5 hurricane" or "large fireball downtown" to be able to communicate in the now heavily used communications networks. Just sayin'
is what we call it, not piracy. If you own the game, you can own the ROM. At least thats what the rom sites i certainly have never visited or downloaded in mass quantities tell me. At least, I assume thats what they tell me. I wouldnt know since ive never gone to those sites. Infact ive never even heard of this "rom" thing. You have to tell me if youre a cop you know! I CANT BE COURT MARTIALED TWICE.
Do what they always have. What all our governments always do: ignore the fact that people are commiting war crimes. Dont address the problems of real day to day worry. Instead, they seem much happier wasting resources to prosecute people who *are not bad people.* That gets left out too often. WAY too often. These are not bad people; not really. They didnt do anything wrong that actually matters. Sure, yeah, commited "crimes." Of course, in the real world, this crime amounts to...well, imagine a farmer. with 50 acres of land. Around one end he has a fence, saying "Private Property." at the other side however, wel, he hasnt gotten around to building that fence yet. So claerly he can murder anyone who comes passed this unmarked line. Its not Anonymous/whoevers fault that our governments have decided to be as ridiculously insecure in their data as is possible, in every area of every system. Corruption is rampant. War is being waged. Rights are being eroded. law enforcement becoming just enforcers. Criminals at the heads of multinational corporations destroying the world, cutting mountains into dust. Pollution filling our sky and our land and our water with crap. Even if you dont think climate change is real, surely you can see the problem in dumping things that kill people into our air. Its not like it has anywhere else to go. So right now, heres how it looks: The UK government and private citizens had their phones and computers hacked by Rupert Murdoch's media outlet. Crimes were hindered by their efforts to get the news from the phones. and what does the UK do? Focus on a "spokesman" for a group who probably hasnt actually commited a crime. Way to go, UK. Between Murdoch and that jerk in charg of BP, you clearly made the right choice: Arrest some guy no one knows who could never even begin to cause the sort of damage the real criminals do. These guys arent bad people, again, its really important: They are NOT bad people. The bad people are the ones arresting people for nonsense reason, are the ones who ripped off the global economy. are the ones who started andengaged in illegal wars. Not this group. But you can bet they'll do everything to get attention away from Murdoch's monsters and the corporate pirates running us into a wall. How many Murdoch outlets do you think will cover this and never again mention, yo know, the horrible crimes they commited, like torture. Like letting mercenaries act as mobile soverign territory. No, this is not what matters. What matters is some guy from some group whos name most people cant even pronounce because he allegedly decided to be a spokesman for a group. So, my advice to the UK and all others is as follows: Stop being whiny jerks ,stop ignoring the issues and STOP SHOOTING THE MESSANGER.
Sheesh.
(Please to note: when I use general terms like "to the UK" i am intending my words to be directed at the agencies in question, not over the UK as a whole; that would be silly and wrong.)
First off all: Are you really that ignorant? Sorry that was the best way i could put this.Have you seen a modern high security prison? You know, for people who murder, people who rape, and people who smoke pot? kinda have to coordinate that stuff when everyone in your prison is a murderer and hates every other faction in the prison, also murderers. Still, I'm hoping this succeeds. It would be better for us to shut down all our prisons and releas eall the prisoners, than to force such a horrid existance on an innocent person. As we have murderd innocent people, stolen decades of their life. And yes, im serious. Those jerks who commit crimes are jerks. When we execute or punish people who did no wrong, we should feel horrible. But its marked up to collateral damage...I like to ask people (my parents and boyfriend) "So, You'd be okay with me being executed for a crime i did not commit and you know i did not commit, because the system works most of the time?" Ive always been good with heartstrings. Though it makes for a very messy rendition of cat's cradle, and no one i play with has made it to the end. I wish I could rememeb rwhat my original point for this comment was though.
Apparently, if you throw enough money at something, it happens. Especially if someone can operate at a loss until it prospers. Microsoft and their X-Box strategy was a good example.
what an oddly friendly term to be stuck right before decapitation.
They did with ADHD, they did it with depression, they did it with erections. Watch out for those anti-psychotics though; a large number cause weight gain, which is not good.
It seems like the only good reason for these issues would be, being up when most people are not, and sleeping is hard when most people are wide awake. I think that we should basically just decide, screw it, our days are actually 24 hours. Its already going that way after all. Plus we'd have like a bazillion new jobs without much new cost, and people who like being up at night can do so rather than people who prefer being up in the day.
People will actually take this seriously, and will rarely ever leave bizarre porn and personal information on old computers again. I for one can't wait to see what happens when you hit one of these with a golf club or put it in a microwave.
We learned in Final Fantasy 7 that a comet impacting the sun would cause a supernova. Which I assure you we would have noticed.
Well I for one am GLAD. Yes you heard me. In these times of uncertainty, fear, confusion and doubt, its comforting to know the people who cliam to protect me are stealing my things. Where else are you gonna get such a predictable, consistent outcome? In a way, its actually comforting.
People seem to forget their history. What happend when Soviet Russia collapsed? That right, they didnt destroy the world economy. Now, what happend when the economy here in the US went bad? It crashed the rest of the world too. That was capitalism's work. Capitalism failed even harder than communism did. And yet its cheerleaders remain because...I dont know why, they havent bothered to pay attention to anything before 2007 id assume. Its the only explination that they wouldnt get this simple truth.
First of all, yeah, crime is lower now then its been, like..ever. Second, we already have WAY TOO MANY people in prison. Third, cancelling all the drugwar related things (prisons, police raids, innocents killed by police, drug cartels) would bring us a lot more money. Prisons are expensive. Fourth, of course, just see Wisconsin. The corporate owned prisons there have done an impeccable job: now that they cant collectively bargain in Wisconsin, they have to use Slave Labor to do so. I cant think of any other word for prisoners being given to corporations to work for ZERO money, and considering how many innocent people are in jail it means that, even if doing that to prisoners was okay (It-Is-Not.) then we'd be enslaving innocent people! Buuut no one really cared when I said the same thing about using the death sentence to kill innocent people. SO I dont expect this to push it over the edge...My boyfriend used to be in favor of such a penalty. I asked him, "So itd be okay if I was killed by the state, because the system is mostly good?" Felt like a bit of a jerk after saying it but i got the point across. These atrocities have to end. And the corporations have managed to get everyone whiupped up in false fear, to the point where ANY reduciton of "crime" fighting (hurting innocents in victimless crimes) will be used as fodder in politics. One more thing, just to make sure it is absolutely clear : Crime Rates Are Very Very Very Very Low. VERY LOW. *Very low!* and so on. Dont believe the hype. We're all in danger of being the next dead or enslaved innocent. And we always will be until we end this abomination
I wonder why they dont just try to patent photons and waves? Our patent system would almost definetly let them. Considering how greedy, stupid and completely out of touch distributors are, I fully anticipate them suing us for unauthorized electrochemical distribution of Caribbean Blue.
And its been bothering me. I mean have you seen those hand gels people are always slathering on? They seem to forget the .1% that it doesnt kill. Its like, congrats, you just made your hands a cess pool by removing all the competition a microbe that is already resistant to our best efforts would normally have!
The only thing that nears that level of stupidity would be preemptively dosing all our herd animals with anitbiotics by default. But thats so insanely reckless that theres no way wed ever allow it. ...We do? Oh. Thats not good. :/
Of course the problem with that is that in less than 100 years we went from blubbering all our communications into space to near silence, and we should assume that others would make similar leaps. Right now we could use it for our biggest threat: Compiling data on asteroids and comets to find those which are most at threat to earth. We could use it to monitor solar flare activity and magnetic field fluctuations on a planetary scale. Or we could use it to help make a larger scale model of the earth to help predict climate and plate tectonics
Really we shouldnt have done this in the first place. I propose we transfer all rights for bittorrent and mutorrent to Tranz-Send. That includes all responsibility for them. Then we just let the telecomms sue them into nonexistance, force them to sell the patent for a pittance, while humiliating him and pointing out the illogic in our current patent system, all while stripping the ill-gotten gains from the exploiting tranz-send. Its a great idea. The people love a Seven in One Stroke, and thats exactly what we could get. Legal channels sure dont do jack about it, so we may as well start getting creative.
Bugs are inevitable. You can never be sure you you dont have bugs. Hows your head doing? Sure you didnt replace that period with a decimal? What, youre gonna run checking software? Thats all well and good once you can know tha tit will always report correct values. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilemma for the faults in your reasoning.
I dont get this definition of hacking. At all. It seems to share the definition of "Life" or "Doing stuff with stuff." Its among the most bizarre names for a very simple idea that i know of. You should check out my room. Ive hacked my enviornment so that, instead of a lack of oxygen causing panic, my breath refelx works off rising Co2 levels! Or, hey, I hacked this peice of wood by hacking some metal and hacked myself a table whih my hacked physics box hacks on. It seems completely redundant.
A golden age can only exist by looking back on what was. Anyone declaring anything to be a golden age is therefor automatically wrong.