Unless you are outside of the territorial juridestiction of your country groups like the FTC will eventually get you good.
Also setting up a business on the ineternet also means that you have to have something to sell and quite frankly 80% of all small businesses fail in 2 years time. It's even worse for the net.
I could make more money on selling a diamond than most sites on the net.
He's a journalist who writes essays for slashdot
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And I think he makes good points. What people need is someone to take a look into what people think is so darn interesting.
Paper and pencil role playing games to me seem, well.... not that interesting. You basically have to leave a great deal up to the GM and little up to dealing with interesting things.
What would be interesting would be a complex system wherein it would be possible to have every aspect of a journey from character to enemy reactions/thoughts to various random weather patterns. That would be truely amazing.
Ohhh a lobbiest group decides to lobby the government for protection of an industry can you say "tariff". Ever seen agriculture supports that actually pay farmers *not* to grow more crops. Been there done that. Not new at all.
The first thought I had on reading the story was that this was an industry using a national government to try and 'protect it's right to make money'.
They have sales taxes on booze and cigs and gasoline, and even regular every day food. I pay sales tax of roughly in the neighboorhood of $0.06-$0.08 on every dollar I spend at the store. This is extremely typical of a government who wishes to keep an industry afloat.
In the abstract keeping a steady income is important for almost everyone but when you get to the level of a billionaire you really can indeed stand to loose some.
And we all know how important it is to protect civil rights for an industry.
When did civil rights enter into this? This isn't about civil rights it's about ecconomics.
This is insane. I swear I'm moving to Tahiti or Fiji and I'm going to live in a tribe.
Meanwhile I sit in my nice comfy chair and get all the benefits that living in a country with plentful food, clothing, freedom, and personal posessions. Very go to the tribe but be sure to take along a camera at least you can make some scratch with you new career as an Anthropologist studying the natives in you new movie: "Nidhogg tarries in the land of the savages!".
don't they see that this promotes breaking the laws?
I can't see how unless you like living dangerously.
ts like a cop that stops you before you enter a very fast highway and says "we're collecting in advance for any speeding you're likely to do". who in their right mind
would NOT speed after being charged for it? especially if your car is up to it.
Already happens with Insurance companies charging more for different demographics.
The people who have the most guns and men automatically become the government. That's why anarchy is impossible because eventually people get tired of the constant bandit raiding parties and help Cletus to form an empire.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or
enumeration.
I'm writing everything with a pulse on the floor of the House and Senate to see how they voted and why they voted that way. (Let's see if at least Colifornia's crew is
honest and says that they did it for the money.)
Personally I think California politicians are the most crooked of the entire lot. That won't happen any time soon.
Principally I don't care too terribly about music and the like. I think that the best aspects of life are found in books and make more of an impact.
To put it into perspective I really don't care for example that DeBeers has a monopoly on worldwide diamond distribution because I don't like or need jewerly.
However the internet is very important and so is television to a number of degrees. Therefore some monopolies are more harmful than others.
This is just a function of the government and it being By the people, for the people, and for the people, some of those people work for companies and want their share of their government's money.
What prevents a big news item from going down today? Why would a company actually fear a party or a news item. Only about 1% of the people in the world probably know what RSA actually is. I know it wouldn't make it into the 11:00 news.
Personally I havn't had that great deal of trust for EIGamal. Personally I want to be able to use RSA in gpg at 4096 bits or more without needing to download it outside the US.
See that's the beauty of anonymity the stupid "intellectual property" laws don't apply to you. That is in fact how most controversial code should be handled.
So even though it will be in the open, can I still use it and call it a strong encryption technique and then when anyone who has been in Calc 1 can crack it, I mean
reverse engineer it, can I still sue them thanks to the wonderful (ha) DMCA?
I have taken Calc 1 and passed and I still find many, many concepts in encryption hard to understand if not impossible. Where is a good run down of all the math involved? It would have to be limitd to differentiation and medium-hard integration techniques to work at a Calc 1 leve.
That is about the worst account of the cause of the American Civil War that I've ever heard. It's almost as bad as the delusional fools that claim it was fought over slavery. It was a war brought about by economic controls
being put into place by an oppressive government. I would think that with all the issues currently in Slashdot's spotlight, this woudl be well understood.
Well pretty much the average southerner didn't want to go to war and fight for the rich. It was the poor dirt farmers who died at Gettysburg and not the rich plantation owners. It's pretty clear that the South was controlled by the planters who in turn owned slaves who in turn got pissed off that the north because of their motives and extremists (abolitionists) and their ideas about states rights. Yes the war was not fought about slavery in the sole but in fact more about the rights of states in the abstract. South Carolina had been a trouble spot since the 1830's under John C. Calhoon and the Jackson administration.
You assume "people finally figured out that they were getting hurt.". If they are stripped of ways to figure out, then eventually they cannot.
Which at the most fundamental level is impossible. Even in communist countries people have secret papers and there is always the concept of whispers and looks. Human communications will flourish even with the gestapo at the door.
PERSONALLY believe that it was harsh to label me as ignorant. I was stating a view and providing examples to support my belief. You stated that "Their only means of recreation, life, social gatherings, common
grounds, etc were through churches". Pfew! You mean like the only source of income in a modern day society is by a corporation? Or objects that better our lives...from a corporation?
I concede that you probably are not ignorant but just taking a different look at something which has been proven before.
As with the techinical knowledge? Where is technical knowledge of use today in modern society?
Well this is slashdot afterall and we are using the inernet right? And I am in the process of learning about technical subjects every day so I guess that dissapates that one.
My friend, people *are* ignorant. Look at race relations in the US. Look at how long it has taken African-Americans to break free of old constraints and stagnant beliefs continually festered by corporations who yielded
tons of money at their slave expense.
Uh race relations usually don't center on the fact that a person was born in a certain area as to disunderstood cultural mores and sterotypes. For example. Blacks are all in gangs/commit felonies/are prisoneers/deal crack, etc are all ideas. This dosn't say that everyone who is from Africa or who has black skin is evil just that ignorant people like Cletus think that all black people are like the guy who is his next door neighbor. Nothing so fancy. The only time when any "corporation" if you could call them that actually was in the slave business was in the old south and culturally and philosophically the south and the north were two different entities. I sugest you look at one of the very good books that deal with Southern History (can't remember the name deals with many essays on the differences in northern and southern though).
All these beliefs STILL fester in modern society and ANY US History teacher will decry account after account, of why corporations lobbyied their state representatives to lawfully
deny reading and education for the masses would rise up and destabalize the state.
Like the Old Deluder Satan Act in new england which created essentially a wide spread reading program for almost all children? How about all those one room school houses that were around when my grandfather was alive? Personally I like references of massive attempt to keep people in the dark. Maybe funding was the problem but pretty much it's the law now to go to school (and has been for a long time). Those arguments may have been more relevent in say the 14th century or back when Gutenburg was around.
This system of ignorance and spinmaking is found continuosly over and over throughout the history of the world. I don't care if you
don't "like" me. Please, I just ask that respect my opinion.
Political control is common I grant you that. However not every country is like a Moussilini or a Hitleran state. Ultimately when everything is said and done massive political unrest will unseat any corporation or any political entity. Technical knowledge is the cornerstone of true ecconomic success. Slashdot if proof enough. The massive influx of technical oriented jobs is another.
What will it be then? Necessarily, whatever new dimension we can add to human interaction. My guess will be virtual reality; the internet, however, ought to provide the backbone for VR interactions across distances,
which makes the 'Net an important first step.
Virtual reality isn't something that the average person can use or actually run on a standard PC. As long as mainframe computers are needed to actually run the stuff it isn't practical for anyone. Also the interface is a really bad idea for getting any real work done. Visualization and modeling aren't really useful except for final presentation. I can type faster say
ls -al *.txt
emacs slashdot.txt
than I could to go crusing around in 3d looking for slashdot.txt and then having to pry open the "file" and start reading through it; then maybe take a "pen" and start adding corrections.
Do I really need someone in Congress to represent me?
In view of the law that isn't going to change. Also you average representative usually has more education and free time than you. Do you have time for say 6 months or more to go away from home to Washington DC and read literally thousands of pages of laws a day and understand/vote on them? I think not.
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Unless you are outside of the territorial juridestiction of your country groups like the FTC will eventually get you good.
Also setting up a business on the ineternet also means that you have to have something to sell and quite frankly 80% of all small businesses fail in 2 years time. It's even worse for the net.
I could make more money on selling a diamond than most sites on the net.
And I think he makes good points. What people need is someone to take a look into what people think is so darn interesting.
Paper and pencil role playing games to me seem, well.... not that interesting. You basically have to leave a great deal up to the GM and little up to dealing with interesting things.
What would be interesting would be a complex system wherein it would be possible to have every aspect of a journey from character to enemy reactions/thoughts to various random weather patterns. That would be truely amazing.
You have piqued my interest.
Presumably if you are getting the money anyway then theoretically there's no problem. Kind of like rebates on various items at electronics stores.
I agree. It's scary as Hell.
Ohhh a lobbiest group decides to lobby the government for protection of an industry can you say "tariff". Ever seen agriculture supports that actually pay farmers *not* to grow more crops. Been there done that. Not new at all.
The first thought I had on reading the story was that this was an industry using a national government to try and 'protect it's right to make money'.
They have sales taxes on booze and cigs and gasoline, and even regular every day food. I pay sales tax of roughly in the neighboorhood of $0.06-$0.08 on every dollar I spend at the store. This is extremely typical of a government who wishes to keep an industry afloat.
In the abstract keeping a steady income is important for almost everyone but when you get to the level of a billionaire you really can indeed stand to loose some.
And we all know how important it is to protect civil rights for an industry.
When did civil rights enter into this? This isn't about civil rights it's about ecconomics.
This is insane. I swear I'm moving to Tahiti or Fiji and I'm going to live in a tribe.
Meanwhile I sit in my nice comfy chair and get all the benefits that living in a country with plentful food, clothing, freedom, and personal posessions. Very go to the tribe but be sure to take along a camera at least you can make some scratch with you new career as an Anthropologist studying the natives in you new movie: "Nidhogg tarries in the land of the savages!".
don't they see that this promotes breaking the laws?
I can't see how unless you like living dangerously.
ts like a cop that stops you before you enter a very fast highway and says "we're collecting in advance for any speeding you're likely to do". who in their right mind
would NOT speed after being charged for it? especially if your car is up to it.
Already happens with Insurance companies charging more for different demographics.
The people who have the most guns and men automatically become the government. That's why anarchy is impossible because eventually people get tired of the constant bandit raiding parties and help Cletus to form an empire.
And I quote:
Amendment XVI
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or
enumeration.
source here
The capitol got burned down. Hey great job guys.
Policeman: Ummm sir I'm writing you a ticket for not wearing puffy pants. That's $4,000 payable in cash.
All they have to do is just start doing thing like the above and suddently you have no more tax problem. It's just another name for the same thing.
The Germans have to be reminded every few decades, or they get upppity again.
That's pretty unsubstantive. I think that anyone from Germany would disagree with you.
I'm writing everything with a pulse on the floor of the House and Senate to see how they voted and why they voted that way. (Let's see if at least Colifornia's crew is
honest and says that they did it for the money.)
Personally I think California politicians are the most crooked of the entire lot. That won't happen any time soon.
Principally I don't care too terribly about music and the like. I think that the best aspects of life are found in books and make more of an impact.
To put it into perspective I really don't care for example that DeBeers has a monopoly on worldwide diamond distribution because I don't like or need jewerly.
However the internet is very important and so is television to a number of degrees. Therefore some monopolies are more harmful than others.
This is just a function of the government and it being By the people, for the people, and for the people, some of those people work for companies and want their share of their government's money.
What prevents a big news item from going down today? Why would a company actually fear a party or a news item. Only about 1% of the people in the world probably know what RSA actually is. I know it wouldn't make it into the 11:00 news.
Why then does it look so darn comlplex and have symbols that I don't even know the operation to?
That's basically the long and short of it. Without the need to have to ask and bey and plead to be able to use it now anyone can use it at any time.
Personally I havn't had that great deal of trust for EIGamal. Personally I want to be able to use RSA in gpg at 4096 bits or more without needing to download it outside the US.
See that's the beauty of anonymity the stupid "intellectual property" laws don't apply to you. That is in fact how most controversial code should be handled.
So even though it will be in the open, can I still use it and call it a strong encryption technique and then when anyone who has been in Calc 1 can crack it, I mean
reverse engineer it, can I still sue them thanks to the wonderful (ha) DMCA?
I have taken Calc 1 and passed and I still find many, many concepts in encryption hard to understand if not impossible. Where is a good run down of all the math involved? It would have to be limitd to differentiation and medium-hard integration techniques to work at a Calc 1 leve.
I am just curious.
That is about the worst account of the cause of the American Civil War that I've ever heard. It's almost as bad as the delusional fools that claim it was fought over slavery. It was a war brought about by economic controls
being put into place by an oppressive government. I would think that with all the issues currently in Slashdot's spotlight, this woudl be well understood.
Well pretty much the average southerner didn't want to go to war and fight for the rich. It was the poor dirt farmers who died at Gettysburg and not the rich plantation owners. It's pretty clear that the South was controlled by the planters who in turn owned slaves who in turn got pissed off that the north because of their motives and extremists (abolitionists) and their ideas about states rights. Yes the war was not fought about slavery in the sole but in fact more about the rights of states in the abstract. South Carolina had been a trouble spot since the 1830's under John C. Calhoon and the Jackson administration.
You assume "people finally figured out that they were getting hurt.". If they are stripped of ways to figure out, then eventually they cannot.
Which at the most fundamental level is impossible. Even in communist countries people have secret papers and there is always the concept of whispers and looks. Human communications will flourish even with the gestapo at the door.
PERSONALLY believe that it was harsh to label me as ignorant. I was stating a view and providing examples to support my belief. You stated that "Their only means of recreation, life, social gatherings, common
grounds, etc were through churches". Pfew! You mean like the only source of income in a modern day society is by a corporation? Or objects that better our lives...from a corporation?
I concede that you probably are not ignorant but just taking a different look at something which has been proven before.
As with the techinical knowledge? Where is technical knowledge of use today in modern society?
Well this is slashdot afterall and we are using the inernet right? And I am in the process of learning about technical subjects every day so I guess that dissapates that one.
My friend, people *are* ignorant. Look at race relations in the US. Look at how long it has taken African-Americans to break free of old constraints and stagnant beliefs continually festered by corporations who yielded
tons of money at their slave expense.
Uh race relations usually don't center on the fact that a person was born in a certain area as to disunderstood cultural mores and sterotypes. For example. Blacks are all in gangs/commit felonies/are prisoneers/deal crack, etc are all ideas. This dosn't say that everyone who is from Africa or who has black skin is evil just that ignorant people like Cletus think that all black people are like the guy who is his next door neighbor. Nothing so fancy. The only time when any "corporation" if you could call them that actually was in the slave business was in the old south and culturally and philosophically the south and the north were two different entities. I sugest you look at one of the very good books that deal with Southern History (can't remember the name deals with many essays on the differences in northern and southern though).
All these beliefs STILL fester in modern society and ANY US History teacher will decry account after account, of why corporations lobbyied their state representatives to lawfully
deny reading and education for the masses would rise up and destabalize the state.
Like the Old Deluder Satan Act in new england which created essentially a wide spread reading program for almost all children? How about all those one room school houses that were around when my grandfather was alive? Personally I like references of massive attempt to keep people in the dark. Maybe funding was the problem but pretty much it's the law now to go to school (and has been for a long time). Those arguments may have been more relevent in say the 14th century or back when Gutenburg was around.
This system of ignorance and spinmaking is found continuosly over and over throughout the history of the world. I don't care if you
don't "like" me. Please, I just ask that respect my opinion.
Political control is common I grant you that. However not every country is like a Moussilini or a Hitleran state. Ultimately when everything is said and done massive political unrest will unseat any corporation or any political entity. Technical knowledge is the cornerstone of true ecconomic success. Slashdot if proof enough. The massive influx of technical oriented jobs is another.
What will it be then? Necessarily, whatever new dimension we can add to human interaction. My guess will be virtual reality; the internet, however, ought to provide the backbone for VR interactions across distances,
which makes the 'Net an important first step.
Virtual reality isn't something that the average person can use or actually run on a standard PC. As long as mainframe computers are needed to actually run the stuff it isn't practical for anyone. Also the interface is a really bad idea for getting any real work done. Visualization and modeling aren't really useful except for final presentation. I can type faster say
ls -al *.txt
emacs slashdot.txt
than I could to go crusing around in 3d looking for slashdot.txt and then having to pry open the "file" and start reading through it; then maybe take a "pen" and start adding corrections.
Do I really need someone in Congress to represent me?
In view of the law that isn't going to change. Also you average representative usually has more education and free time than you. Do you have time for say 6 months or more to go away from home to Washington DC and read literally thousands of pages of laws a day and understand/vote on them? I think not.