Entrepeneurial successes moving forward will empower the individual, not the corporations. Linden is binding it's revenue stream with company contributions, making its direction at odds with what people really want. Who would buy land in an advertising wasteland?
sad - it had such potential.
Good thing 3D technology is getting out there. others will swoop in and fill the gap and give the people what they really want.
The additional "critical blow" to democracy is the elimination of real voting. I meant the rise of electronic machines for our voting that are obviously prone to tampering, and that we now have evidence that tampering has happened and will continue happen.
In my opinion, the U.S. should eliminate the use of all elctronic machines entirely before 2008, without exception.
No, the "proper" reading of MY STATEMENT (insomuch as one might be able to define a proper way to read something...???) is exactly as a I wrote it, highlighting the concept of democracy with a capital D because I wanted to. It's important.
You don't get to just twist concepts however you want and get away with it. This administration has destroyed democracy in the U.S. (and I'm using your little "d" here, so there is no "improper" reading of what I mean here.) The facts are obvious.
Strangely even your twisting away from the uncomfortable reality of the current administration is wrong. The Democratic Party has most of the same underlying tenets as the Republicans: They want to collect money and power and control their political constituents to vote together against the other party. same same, just different name.
And on related note, it is not random that the "Democratic" party and democracy come from the same word root. There are core beleifs driving the political left that align with democracy much moreso that the underlying themes in the political right.
"To the seeker of Truth it is immaterial from where an idea comes. The source and development of an idea is a matter for the academic."
Once you can SEE what is going on, it doesn't matter who told you. To simply dismiss ideas completely because of the source is lazy - you must think about what you see and hear, or you willfully give up youself to the manipulations of others.
First off, you link to a new site which has reposted a blogger post from "Say Anything" blog - who apparently will say anything to make his point, even if it doesn't make sense. Most conclusions on his blog page are completely illogical.
no, I think the words he meant were "was STOLEN" - but (I would assume) his intellectual honesty lead him to hedge his language because he knew he doesn't have evidence himself.
The Left has to grow up and start calling a spade a spade - by asserting the TRUTH directly and clearly, without blame of judgment: The Neocon executive leadership in the US are criminals, their actions undermine the tenets of Democracy, and they need to be reigned in, now (as in arraignment).
on election cheating... rfk jr. had a very nice article in Rolling Stone on 10/5 with many details; first few paragraphs below and link to full text.
Along with all the OTHER deathblows dealt to liberty (even over the last few weeks) this one is also a critical blow. It feels like we're at the very end of a mortal combat battle and Democracy is sailing backwards into the spiked pit after the triple-katana lightning-strike mortal-blow-to-the groin attack.
Nonetheless, I don't think it's going to replace archeology.
au contraire - it will spawn something completely new. Digging in dirt wont stop I've been using the phrase "information archaeologists" for some time. These will be cultural historians who are informatics professionals.
We will eventually (on the 100 year+) horizon get to the point where all human activity is meticulously logged and trackable.
It will be fascinating to recreate all the actions, meetings, and thought development of early digital-man (in the 1960-2050 range). It will happen, and it will be beautiful to recreate who we all were back then in the age when ubiquitous communication didn't exist.
"accessing backup tapes" from 1000 years ago is a non sequitur
information that gets used is saved, the rest is eventually lost. on the really long term, that is the ONLY strategy that works because it is technology agnostic. So... to save things long term - make sure people keep using the information.
If people are actively researching 1000 yo copies of information, the systems of the day will store and manage the data. If not, the information will eventually be inaccessible.
So in a roundabout way, we should stop worrying about "really long term" storage completely. Make the storage media we have last as long as we can - and keep using them.
I love my mac. I use it about 6+ hours a day and it intergratees into all my professional and personal life.
I can't stand Dock. I've written and posted on this many times. I don't like how much time it takes to use, the resources it takes to animate it, and most annoying is that I can not remove it without trashing Finder. I keep it hidden, and stuffed up under the menu bar.
I also can't stand spotlight. It is a resource hog and doesn't work well, plus it takes up critical real estate on the menu bar. "locate" in an xterm works much better. At least removing spotlight entirely was possible.
If these (Dock and Spotlight) are the things Apple thinks are the gems to keep encrypted... wow. They are doing stuff I don't get.
The real power of my Mac is the integrated windowing and graphics, OpenGL and the commerical support for DVD, burning, MS Word and Excel for business, and high end Adobe products that work *really* well. If not for those things, I'd be using a Linux laptop.
Speaking of POW camps - did anyone else notice the USA has like 10 or 20 Thousand people in secret camps? A friend who camp over for dinner last night said that the president had admitted it.
Trying to control what people think will not work long term.
People will act to avoid control structures in any way they can.
People who work to control other people are often out of control of themselves.
People get severely screwed up but too much judgment, or said differently: trying to stop people from having their "bad/immoral" thoughts usually means the problems that create those bad thoughts are not addressed and corrected.... discuss.
I went to hear Norvig talk this week at Parc and found his talk interesting, yet uninspiring. Sadly it was marketing.
Like all large organizations, they have limited ability to focus on niche areas, and some of the really important niche areas they are completely ignoring. It really does always come back to limited resources.
Why have they been unable to complete with YouTube, and instead they are in talks for buying them for 1.X Billion?
Why do they have a litany of research projects that have limited to minimal adoption?
Why are they still focused on the big-numbers word game when it's clear that even with 100 Trillion+ word corpuses, they still only achieve 70-90% accuracy for various language tasks?...
The answer to all of these questions is that they have a (massive) core business, and the focus of the company if to maintain and grow that core business. To really address the above issues and several other, critical ones toward their ultimate goal, they need to be "more different" than how normal, big companies operate. They need to separate out the core and build an internal financial ecology to mirror the outside world. They currently have an internal idea and development ecology - but that is not enough to incent the niche development internally.
I'm sure what roystgnr meant was the "DRM HEAD(TM)" surgical bio-implant that is now installed by default on all new human models. This feature rich, obligatory, add-on (installed before birth) has the RJX9000 bi-directional A/V control system where external images are implanted directly onto the retinal system. Of course, due to glacactic imperitive 358947659348567 (like all legal tecxhnology systems) the DRM HEAD (TM) includes the very latest DRM from Microsoogledobepple, Inc. and responds only to verified keys from the Galactic State.
I find it terribly ironic that even with the draw of an idealistic computer-generated world, the people (both at LL and the payers) have mostly structured it with all the ills of the real world.
IP??? in a virtual world? it don't even make no sense in the real world. Except in the interest of keeping people with busi-ness -- we don't need IP and the world would be better without ownership of ideas.
I took about 30 minutes in 2nd life to realize it was the RL equivalent of a massive strip mall.
Yes, it is. According to the The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, part of the United Nations Evonmental Prgramme - tasked specifically with examination of the scientific evidence - they wrote: Thus current evidence does not support globally synchronous periods of anomalous cold or warmth over this timeframe. Online version is located here: http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/070.htm I'd say that's a dispute.
You keep saying the same line of reasoning repeatedly, you're asserting things that are clearly false (I claim the statement I quote from above is clearly false.), and you are asserting your opinions without and any supporting evidence or proof at all.
Here, with this post, you propagate more FUD - Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt:
F = "in spite of what Al Gore might say" U = "It is entirely possible"; "to have ended somewhere around" D = "It is still disputed if humans actually,"
What ever happened to the value in truth? Somewhere over the last 6 years it became in vogue to NOT connect ones reasoning as close as possible to objective reality.
The debate is over. As I see it, rational discussion as to weather or not human pollution is a factor in global temperatures occurs now only with people who are significantly underinformed about the current scientific evidence in the story. Those who understand the science see the connection: humans have caused and are causing significant changes to the environment. These changes affect the temperature. You can choose not to see or believe it. I will stand up and cut through the obvious guilt-ridden FUD-driven drivelish. It will take a lot more people doing this to rid ourselves of the current tendency toward accepting blatant untruths.
The basic nature of this text interchange is one in which you are not engaging me, addressing my points, or answering the questions I raise.
I don't have time to continue this thread and will not reply further.
this reopening of the Northwest Passage is pretty sound evidence... the way I see it, no it is not.
Your response is almost a verbatim copy of your previous post. Saying it again does not make it more accurate or more supported. The best defense against logic is ignorance. What facts or evidence can you present to support the assertion "that global warming is most likely not caused by humans, but instead a natural phenomenon"?
This is a statement that I do not agree with, as there is significant evidence that the burning of fossil fuels leads to greenhouse gasses, that when their increase causes greenhouse effects and higher average temperatures. This is not proof of human causation of recently observed increases in average global temperature patterns, but it is a coorelation that is extremely hard to dismiss scientifically.
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this is exactly why 2nd life will fail.
Entrepeneurial successes moving forward will empower the individual, not the corporations. Linden is binding it's revenue stream with company contributions, making its direction at odds with what people really want. Who would buy land in an advertising wasteland?
sad - it had such potential.
Good thing 3D technology is getting out there. others will swoop in and fill the gap and give the people what they really want.
Neither - I was not clear.
The additional "critical blow" to democracy is the elimination of real voting. I meant the rise of electronic machines for our voting that are obviously prone to tampering, and that we now have evidence that tampering has happened and will continue happen.
In my opinion, the U.S. should eliminate the use of all elctronic machines entirely before 2008, without exception.
No, the "proper" reading of MY STATEMENT (insomuch as one might be able to define a proper way to read something...???) is exactly as a I wrote it, highlighting the concept of democracy with a capital D because I wanted to. It's important.
You don't get to just twist concepts however you want and get away with it. This administration has destroyed democracy in the U.S. (and I'm using your little "d" here, so there is no "improper" reading of what I mean here.) The facts are obvious.
Strangely even your twisting away from the uncomfortable reality of the current administration is wrong. The Democratic Party has most of the same underlying tenets as the Republicans: They want to collect money and power and control their political constituents to vote together against the other party. same same, just different name.
And on related note, it is not random that the "Democratic" party and democracy come from the same word root. There are core beleifs driving the political left that align with democracy much moreso that the underlying themes in the political right.
... bogearraí le haghaidh an aistrithe uathoibríoch. :)
true, although my 100 year horizon has second-by-second logs of details on all people, discussions and information flows.
as for governments - with this type of information power, we won't need 'em.
"To the seeker of Truth it is immaterial from where an idea comes. The source and development of an idea is a matter for the academic."
Once you can SEE what is going on, it doesn't matter who told you. To simply dismiss ideas completely because of the source is lazy - you must think about what you see and hear, or you willfully give up youself to the manipulations of others.
You are so twisting the story.
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First off, you link to a new site which has reposted a blogger post from "Say Anything" blog - who apparently will say anything to make his point, even if it doesn't make sense. Most conclusions on his blog page are completely illogical.
The actual article to which you refer is here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/kmbc/20061102/lo_kmbc/102
and the leadership of ARORN had nothing to do with the fraud - they immediately fired the people involved.
Now contrast this to the litany of counter examples and suspicious patterns listed here:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/w
no, I think the words he meant were "was STOLEN" - but (I would assume) his intellectual honesty lead him to hedge his language because he knew he doesn't have evidence himself.
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However, the evidence does exist and has been published. For you - read this:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/117171
for first hand accounts of memory card transfers in 2004, in Diebold machines, from an insider/whistleblower.
The Left has to grow up and start calling a spade a spade - by asserting the TRUTH directly and clearly, without blame of judgment: The Neocon executive leadership in the US are criminals, their actions undermine the tenets of Democracy, and they need to be reigned in, now (as in arraignment).
on election cheating... rfk jr. had a very nice article in Rolling Stone on 10/5 with many details; first few paragraphs below and link to full text.
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Along with all the OTHER deathblows dealt to liberty (even over the last few weeks) this one is also a critical blow. It feels like we're at the very end of a mortal combat battle and Democracy is sailing backwards into the spiked pit after the triple-katana lightning-strike mortal-blow-to-the groin attack.
ANYWAY, I found the full article fascinating.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/117171
Will The Next Election Be Hacked?
The debacle of the 2000 presidential election made it all too apparent
to most Americans that our electoral system is broken. And
private-sector entrepreneurs were quick to offer a fix: Touch-screen
voting machines, promised the industry and its lobbyists, would make
voting as easy and reliable as withdrawing cash from an ATM. Congress,
always ready with funds for needy industries, swiftly authorized $3.9
billion to upgrade the nation's election systems - with much of the
money devoted to installing electronic voting machines in each of
America's 180,000 precincts. But as midterm elections approach this
November, electronic voting machines are making things worse instead
of better. Studies have demonstrated that hackers can easily rig the
technology to fix an election - and across the country this year,
faulty equipment and lax security have repeatedly undermined election
primaries. In Tarrant County, Texas, electronic machines counted some
ballots as many as six times, recording 100,000 more votes than were
actually cast. In San Diego, poll workers took machines home for
unsupervised "sleepovers" before the vote, leaving the equipment
vulnerable to tampering. And in Ohio - where, as I recently reported
in "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?" [RS 1002], dirty tricks may have
cost John Kerry the presidency - a government report uncovered large
and unexplained discrepancies in vote totals recorded by machines in
Cuyahoga County.
Even worse, many electronic machines don't produce a paper record that
can be recounted when equipment malfunctions - an omission that
practically invites malicious tampering. "Every board of election has
staff members with the technological ability to fix an election," Ion
Sancho, an election supervisor in Leon County, Florida, told me. "Even
one corrupt staffer can throw an election. Without paper records, it
could happen under my nose and there is no way I'd ever find out about
it. With a few key people in the right places, it would be possible to
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Nonetheless, I don't think it's going to replace archeology.
au contraire - it will spawn something completely new. Digging in dirt wont stop I've been using the phrase "information archaeologists" for some time. These will be cultural historians who are informatics professionals.
We will eventually (on the 100 year+) horizon get to the point where all human activity is meticulously logged and trackable.
It will be fascinating to recreate all the actions, meetings, and thought development of early digital-man (in the 1960-2050 range). It will happen, and it will be beautiful to recreate who we all were back then in the age when ubiquitous communication didn't exist.
"accessing backup tapes" from 1000 years ago is a non sequitur
information that gets used is saved, the rest is eventually lost. on the really long term, that is the ONLY strategy that works because it is technology agnostic. So... to save things long term - make sure people keep using the information.
If people are actively researching 1000 yo copies of information, the systems of the day will store and manage the data. If not, the information will eventually be inaccessible.
So in a roundabout way, we should stop worrying about "really long term" storage completely. Make the storage media we have last as long as we can - and keep using them.
the assertion is more true of the whole Internet/online content, not just wikipedia.
In that sense, archive.org will be the information archaeologists scavenging ground
yanked - no. given the OPTION to remove it - yes.
the way to "remove it" now is to muck with system files and rename the directory the executable live in, and maintain the hack on each OS upgrade.
I use butler now and like it. Thank you. I'll check out Quicksilver.
"Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat."
I love my mac. I use it about 6+ hours a day and it intergratees into all my professional and personal life.
I can't stand Dock. I've written and posted on this many times. I don't like how much time it takes to use, the resources it takes to animate it, and most annoying is that I can not remove it without trashing Finder. I keep it hidden, and stuffed up under the menu bar.
I also can't stand spotlight. It is a resource hog and doesn't work well, plus it takes up critical real estate on the menu bar. "locate" in an xterm works much better. At least removing spotlight entirely was possible.
If these (Dock and Spotlight) are the things Apple thinks are the gems to keep encrypted... wow. They are doing stuff I don't get.
The real power of my Mac is the integrated windowing and graphics, OpenGL and the commerical support for DVD, burning, MS Word and Excel for business, and high end Adobe products that work *really* well. If not for those things, I'd be using a Linux laptop.
Speaking of POW camps - did anyone else notice the USA has like 10 or 20 Thousand people in secret camps? A friend who camp over for dinner last night said that the president had admitted it.
Legislating morality fails.
... discuss.
All information has positive value.
There are no bad thoughts, only bad actions.
Trying to control what people think will not work long term.
People will act to avoid control structures in any way they can.
People who work to control other people are often out of control of themselves.
People get severely screwed up but too much judgment, or said differently: trying to stop people from having their "bad/immoral" thoughts usually means the problems that create those bad thoughts are not addressed and corrected.
I went to hear Norvig talk this week at Parc and found his talk interesting, yet uninspiring. Sadly it was marketing.
...
Like all large organizations, they have limited ability to focus on niche areas, and some of the really important niche areas they are completely ignoring. It really does always come back to limited resources.
Why have they been unable to complete with YouTube, and instead they are in talks for buying them for 1.X Billion?
Why do they have a litany of research projects that have limited to minimal adoption?
Why are they still focused on the big-numbers word game when it's clear that even with 100 Trillion+ word corpuses, they still only achieve 70-90% accuracy for various language tasks?
The answer to all of these questions is that they have a (massive) core business, and the focus of the company if to maintain and grow that core business. To really address the above issues and several other, critical ones toward their ultimate goal, they need to be "more different" than how normal, big companies operate. They need to separate out the core and build an internal financial ecology to mirror the outside world. They currently have an internal idea and development ecology - but that is not enough to incent the niche development internally.
... with Apple and video on Itunes:
c id=14886135
see
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=179695&
Never did buy any more video from Apple; probably won't.
I'm sure what roystgnr meant was the "DRM HEAD(TM)" surgical bio-implant that is now installed by default on all new human models. This feature rich, obligatory, add-on (installed before birth) has the RJX9000 bi-directional A/V control system where external images are implanted directly onto the retinal system. Of course, due to glacactic imperitive 358947659348567 (like all legal tecxhnology systems) the DRM HEAD (TM) includes the very latest DRM from Microsoogledobepple, Inc. and responds only to verified keys from the Galactic State.
I find it terribly ironic that even with the draw of an idealistic computer-generated world, the people (both at LL and the payers) have mostly structured it with all the ills of the real world.
IP??? in a virtual world? it don't even make no sense in the real world. Except in the interest of keeping people with busi-ness -- we don't need IP and the world would be better without ownership of ideas.
I took about 30 minutes in 2nd life to realize it was the RL equivalent of a massive strip mall.
The Little Ice Age is not a disputed idea.
Yes, it is. According to the The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, part of the United Nations Evonmental Prgramme - tasked specifically with examination of the scientific evidence - they wrote: Thus current evidence does not support globally synchronous periods of anomalous cold or warmth over this timeframe. Online version is located here: http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/070.htm I'd say that's a dispute.
You keep saying the same line of reasoning repeatedly, you're asserting things that are clearly false (I claim the statement I quote from above is clearly false.), and you are asserting your opinions without and any supporting evidence or proof at all.
Here, with this post, you propagate more FUD - Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt:
F = "in spite of what Al Gore might say"
U = "It is entirely possible"; "to have ended somewhere around"
D = "It is still disputed if humans actually,"
What ever happened to the value in truth? Somewhere over the last 6 years it became in vogue to NOT connect ones reasoning as close as possible to objective reality.
The debate is over. As I see it, rational discussion as to weather or not human pollution is a factor in global temperatures occurs now only with people who are significantly underinformed about the current scientific evidence in the story. Those who understand the science see the connection: humans have caused and are causing significant changes to the environment. These changes affect the temperature. You can choose not to see or believe it. I will stand up and cut through the obvious guilt-ridden FUD-driven drivelish. It will take a lot more people doing this to rid ourselves of the current tendency toward accepting blatant untruths.
The basic nature of this text interchange is one in which you are not engaging me, addressing my points, or answering the questions I raise.
I don't have time to continue this thread and will not reply further.
I welcome a closing post from you.
this reopening of the Northwest Passage is pretty sound evidence ... the way I see it, no it is not.
Your response is almost a verbatim copy of your previous post. Saying it again does not make it more accurate or more supported. The best defense against logic is ignorance. What facts or evidence can you present to support the assertion "that global warming is most likely not caused by humans, but instead a natural phenomenon"?
This is a statement that I do not agree with, as there is significant evidence that the burning of fossil fuels leads to greenhouse gasses, that when their increase causes greenhouse effects and higher average temperatures. This is not proof of human causation of recently observed increases in average global temperature patterns, but it is a coorelation that is extremely hard to dismiss scientifically.
the AOIS is rising.