Re:Gore's movie = the change in public perception
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An Inconvenient Truth
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2006 hurricane season is over, and not one made landfall.
So much for that "theory". You are correct of course, the hurricane and Gore's assertion that "global warming caused it" are responsible for this shift in perception.
They aren't going to standardize the voltage. The current electronic region encoding on things like DVDs wasn't the first time that people wanted to break things from other countries for their own industry's advantage. PAL/SECAM/NTSC, 120/240/50hz/60hz all this stuff was because of people that don't believe in free trade, that believe that protectionist policies are best.
That sounds exactly like every software salesman I've ever dealt with. I don't know how those guys sleep at night.
People claim lawyers are sleezy, but lawyers are nothing compared to sales. I've never met a software sales person I liked. Ever. I've met lots of them too.
No amount of legal jargon can completely cover human nature. All a lawsuit is, after all, is a sophisticated version of the playground arguments to the teacher. Most cases boil down to pretty basic human desires, lawyers just find ways to translate those desires into legalese.
Once they realize it's AWOL and they call the original owner who says he returned it, they'd report it stolen and then getting pulled over wouldn't be so easy to get out of.
I don't think people hate RFID as much as the idiots that hyped it to hell. As I work in the packaging industry, I actually got shill magazines that existed for the sole purpose of pushing RFID, yet they pretended to be real technology magazines.
There have been billions and billions spent marketing RFID for things it never was suited for. We hate the misapplication of technology, and this marketing machine behind RFID has caused it to be applied in many places it never should have been. Kinda like Java or XML.
So wait, we'll have 12 pence to a shilling, and 20 shillings to a pound? Fuck that. You can take your nondecimalized billshit and shove it. We've had enough trouble trying to get rid of pints and ounces and miles and other crappy british legacy.
Bittorrent was never designed for copyright infringement. Just because you are abusing it in that way doesn't mean that is the use that most people use it for.
I was just noticing this the other day with the "How it's made" show. I noticed the episodes on electronics (PCB) and sheetfed printing, two things I know about, had several errors.
I have to say wikipedia generally seems to have less of this than most media.
It doesn't work that way with government. The people support taking the money and spending it on other things. When you give the government the coercive power to steal from its citizens in the form of taxes, subsets of the populace will leverage that power for their own gain at the expense of others. It's the natural state of taxation and socialism.
That never works. Once they get the money they spend it however they want. How many states passed lottery approval initiatives under the guise they would go for education, and then later had the money taken for the general fund, with small increases for education.
Excellent. Then it should be free market so that people like you will pay more, and the people that don't care for it don't have their money stolen. It's very simple.
That doesn't stop them from taxing the consumption of it. That phrasing was supposed to be a tongue in cheek knock at the insane policy of requiring people to buy a license to watch TV.
There's a good reason the BBC would be interested in this, they would love another way to charge everyone a tax on something silly like they do with TV.
If you own a computer then it's assumed you will consume Internet BBC content, therefore you must pay your computer BBC tax. Socialism works!
Claiming that government interference is always a bad thing is pretty much a colossal load.
I'm a libertarian. It almost always is.
However, I believe that natural monopolies are a place where government intervention can be justified sometimes. A larger coercion can exist when someone has no choice than the minor coercion of a use tax with equality of access.
I believe in the concept of net neutrality, I don't agree with the current legislative attempts to enforce it.
The solution is as someone else mentioned here, just municipalize the last-mile. It's the only place where the natural monopoly exists. The backbone (commercial bandwidth) market is competitive, and there's plenty of choices there. The market will work there if anyone attempts anything funny.
There's a difference between counterfeit and a knockoff.
Counterfeit is fraudulently representing itself as something it is not. For example the problem with power output transistors, with fake branding and fraudulent power ratings (they stuck a tiny silicon die into what was supposed to be a much larger transistor).
That's different from buying a knockoff and knowing it's a knockoff.
The former is done by organized crime often, the latter is just done by manufacturers not bound by the noose of IP around their neck.
Indeed. In fact most of these new features are driven by semiconductor availability for a certain feature. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to wrap a device around "do it all" semiconductors like the ones that are out now.
It would be like Intel whining that other people are making motherboards faster than they can. It's all in the chips.
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2006 hurricane season is over, and not one made landfall.
So much for that "theory". You are correct of course, the hurricane and Gore's assertion that "global warming caused it" are responsible for this shift in perception.
It's sad that science has never entered into it.
They aren't going to standardize the voltage. The current electronic region encoding on things like DVDs wasn't the first time that people wanted to break things from other countries for their own industry's advantage. PAL/SECAM/NTSC, 120/240/50hz/60hz all this stuff was because of people that don't believe in free trade, that believe that protectionist policies are best.
That sounds exactly like every software salesman I've ever dealt with. I don't know how those guys sleep at night.
People claim lawyers are sleezy, but lawyers are nothing compared to sales. I've never met a software sales person I liked. Ever. I've met lots of them too.
No amount of legal jargon can completely cover human nature. All a lawsuit is, after all, is a sophisticated version of the playground arguments to the teacher. Most cases boil down to pretty basic human desires, lawyers just find ways to translate those desires into legalese.
Once they realize it's AWOL and they call the original owner who says he returned it, they'd report it stolen and then getting pulled over wouldn't be so easy to get out of.
I don't think people hate RFID as much as the idiots that hyped it to hell. As I work in the packaging industry, I actually got shill magazines that existed for the sole purpose of pushing RFID, yet they pretended to be real technology magazines.
There have been billions and billions spent marketing RFID for things it never was suited for. We hate the misapplication of technology, and this marketing machine behind RFID has caused it to be applied in many places it never should have been. Kinda like Java or XML.
If you read the article, it's 4.5 standard deviations out. It also says that Six Sigma is "widely discredited".
So wait, we'll have 12 pence to a shilling, and 20 shillings to a pound? Fuck that. You can take your nondecimalized billshit and shove it. We've had enough trouble trying to get rid of pints and ounces and miles and other crappy british legacy.
Bittorrent was never designed for copyright infringement. Just because you are abusing it in that way doesn't mean that is the use that most people use it for.
I was just noticing this the other day with the "How it's made" show. I noticed the episodes on electronics (PCB) and sheetfed printing, two things I know about, had several errors.
I have to say wikipedia generally seems to have less of this than most media.
Try several thousand. Hard disks weren't sub-$1000 until the late 80s.
It doesn't work that way with government. The people support taking the money and spending it on other things. When you give the government the coercive power to steal from its citizens in the form of taxes, subsets of the populace will leverage that power for their own gain at the expense of others. It's the natural state of taxation and socialism.
But I just wonder about how long mankind is going to continue this self destructive throw away mentality.
Please tell me you typed this on your Core 2 Duo with a $500 video card. That would be just perfect.
That never works. Once they get the money they spend it however they want. How many states passed lottery approval initiatives under the guise they would go for education, and then later had the money taken for the general fund, with small increases for education.
Excellent. Then it should be free market so that people like you will pay more, and the people that don't care for it don't have their money stolen. It's very simple.
That doesn't stop them from taxing the consumption of it. That phrasing was supposed to be a tongue in cheek knock at the insane policy of requiring people to buy a license to watch TV.
There's a good reason the BBC would be interested in this, they would love another way to charge everyone a tax on something silly like they do with TV.
If you own a computer then it's assumed you will consume Internet BBC content, therefore you must pay your computer BBC tax. Socialism works!
What would DOS do?
Give you an incomprehensible message and the options A)bort R)etry or F)ail.
It's funny they don't seem to crop up anymore
Their bosses at MS told them to work on the Novell story spin and let the SCO thing go since everyone saw through that ruse.
I'm not joking. Astroturf is real and is happening.
Claiming that government interference is always a bad thing is pretty much a colossal load.
I'm a libertarian. It almost always is.
However, I believe that natural monopolies are a place where government intervention can be justified sometimes. A larger coercion can exist when someone has no choice than the minor coercion of a use tax with equality of access.
I believe in the concept of net neutrality, I don't agree with the current legislative attempts to enforce it.
The solution is as someone else mentioned here, just municipalize the last-mile. It's the only place where the natural monopoly exists. The backbone (commercial bandwidth) market is competitive, and there's plenty of choices there. The market will work there if anyone attempts anything funny.
There's a difference between counterfeit and a knockoff.
Counterfeit is fraudulently representing itself as something it is not. For example the problem with power output transistors, with fake branding and fraudulent power ratings (they stuck a tiny silicon die into what was supposed to be a much larger transistor).
That's different from buying a knockoff and knowing it's a knockoff.
The former is done by organized crime often, the latter is just done by manufacturers not bound by the noose of IP around their neck.
Indeed. In fact most of these new features are driven by semiconductor availability for a certain feature. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to wrap a device around "do it all" semiconductors like the ones that are out now.
It would be like Intel whining that other people are making motherboards faster than they can. It's all in the chips.
It is. It's the wrong solution to the wrong problem.
Your failure to address the argument at hand and attempt to turn this into an issue of irrelevant semantics is truly laughable.
Looks like 90% of those patents are obvious crap. Who is this Breene and who does he really work for?