At one point I took a job with a company that did exactly that. We could intercept, analyze and interfere with nearly a any type of P2P and could even manipulate certain types of unencrypted streams.
The problem is that the movie and recording industries want their shit for free. They will not pay you to interfere with piracy. They will not pay you to swap out the pirated movie someone wanted to download with a trailer of your latest blockbusters. They don't want you to monitor P2P traffic and provide real time statistics on trends in what people are interested in. They don't even want you to insert ads into mp3s and take a cut of the advertising revenue. They want everything for nothing, and will not pay their bills.
The point was not to get you distracted while I attack your beliefs.
The point is to get you familiar with the horrors clearly spelled out and celebrated with praise as virtues of your "divine" god in the book you base your faith on.
It sucks. Now that we have graphics cards capable of effectively pushing >3 million pixels effectively, we don't have the high end CRT monitors that have that kind of resolution any more.
What makes you think an unregulated market is ideal? Unregulated markets naturally form monopolies, monopolies naturally exploit their position to offer unequal trade to consumers who have no other suppliers. Even Adam Smith warned that markets where monopolies are allowed to form are no longer free and healthy.
The best markets are well regulated (not necessarily heavily regulated).
The problem is that you are attempting to imply a no true Scotsman fallacy, when it isn't appropriate. There is a reason the terms Stalinist and Maoist are used. Besides that the destruction of religious institutions where not done because they were religious, but because they were institutions and they threatened the consolidation of authority.
Very little evil has been done in the name of atheism. Not even the atrocities of the soviet union and china are done for atheism. They were done for the communist faith, or more accurately the faith in absolute personal authority held by the madmen who came to power.
You are completely ignoring the new anti-rationality pro-dark age crusade being waged by the radical christians, islamists, jews and hindu's of the world. Not to mention the christian apocalyptic cults and the general attempt by the faithful to convert or exterminate each other.
Read your bible christian. Beginning to end. Old and new testament and tell me your god isn't a murderous psychopath instituting insane and arbitrary laws and demanding adoration under threat of violence. Your god is an evil god.
They believe it because the mental illness of faith, in combination with the religion memetic parasite that infests their mind, allows them to completely ignore all evidence to the contrary.
Yea. Given the choice of Lovecraftian horrors, I vote for Narlyhotep over Cthulhu every time. I know they say Narlyhotep is a dirty african socialist, but he just wants society to exist so we can worship at his yellow robed feet. And Cthulhu is basically running on the platform of "vote for me and I will eat you all". And don't even get me started on Azathoth, sure it claims to be a viable alternative, but then madness and all you can do is chant "vote Azathoth 2012!" whenever anyone expresses the slightest dissatisfaction with the status quo.
Most people with cell phones no longer have land lines. Giving up the cell phone means giving up phone entirely. That makes you nearly unemployable. No one will hire you without a phone number. Phone service is the absolute last thing you should consider eliminating.
Giving up eating out? most people have food in their house anyway, and eating at home is not only cheaper but generally healthier.
Its more like, if I give you a key to my house and safe and tell you "only put stuff in the safe, not take it out", It isn't a considered breaking and entering if you use those keys to open the safe and take stuff out. It would just be theft.
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COBOL can be a bad language, but the best paid jobs around here are for COBOL programmers.
It's hard to find a position (someone must die in order to open up a position), but once you get it, it's for life. =]
In the end, there can be only one.
The problem isn't the magnet.
The problem is that the skin compressed between two magnets will eventually die and rot away from the compression and he will have a hole in his arm.
You start with filename recognition. That is the easy part. Nearly everyone names their movies/songs with the name of the movie/song.
Most won't move on to the other steps of verifying content or creating a hash library to identify the media in obscurely named swarms.
At one point I took a job with a company that did exactly that. We could intercept, analyze and interfere with nearly a any type of P2P and could even manipulate certain types of unencrypted streams.
The problem is that the movie and recording industries want their shit for free. They will not pay you to interfere with piracy. They will not pay you to swap out the pirated movie someone wanted to download with a trailer of your latest blockbusters. They don't want you to monitor P2P traffic and provide real time statistics on trends in what people are interested in. They don't even want you to insert ads into mp3s and take a cut of the advertising revenue. They want everything for nothing, and will not pay their bills.
You are way off base here and jumping to conclusions that are not likely to be correct.
Is is just as likely that he is a paid schill for oracle or apple rather than microsoft.
The point was not to get you distracted while I attack your beliefs.
The point is to get you familiar with the horrors clearly spelled out and celebrated with praise as virtues of your "divine" god in the book you base your faith on.
It sucks. Now that we have graphics cards capable of effectively pushing >3 million pixels effectively, we don't have the high end CRT monitors that have that kind of resolution any more.
What makes you think an unregulated market is ideal? Unregulated markets naturally form monopolies, monopolies naturally exploit their position to offer unequal trade to consumers who have no other suppliers. Even Adam Smith warned that markets where monopolies are allowed to form are no longer free and healthy.
The best markets are well regulated (not necessarily heavily regulated).
The problem is that you are attempting to imply a no true Scotsman fallacy, when it isn't appropriate. There is a reason the terms Stalinist and Maoist are used. Besides that the destruction of religious institutions where not done because they were religious, but because they were institutions and they threatened the consolidation of authority.
Very little evil has been done in the name of atheism. Not even the atrocities of the soviet union and china are done for atheism. They were done for the communist faith, or more accurately the faith in absolute personal authority held by the madmen who came to power.
I and my kind did not create your disease.
It is only becoming popular again as the fleeting embers of enlightenment and renaissance fade.
Your kind have been murdering people in the name of their vile false gods since they were first infected thousands of years ago.
No, I wasn't logged in originally and didn't feel like retyping it after the login dumped me on the main page.
So I posted first then logged in.
I mean what I say. And I have no shame or fear in saying it.
The faithful want people like me to cower under the threat of the violence and evil they worship.
I will do so no longer.
You are completely ignoring the new anti-rationality pro-dark age crusade being waged by the radical christians, islamists, jews and hindu's of the world. Not to mention the christian apocalyptic cults and the general attempt by the faithful to convert or exterminate each other.
Read your bible christian. Beginning to end. Old and new testament and tell me your god isn't a murderous psychopath instituting insane and arbitrary laws and demanding adoration under threat of violence. Your god is an evil god.
I never said religious people are stupid.
I said they were insane.
I said the gods they worship are evil and dangerous to human survival.
That is something very different than calling them stupid.
They believe it because the mental illness of faith, in combination with the religion memetic parasite that infests their mind, allows them to completely ignore all evidence to the contrary.
Yea. Given the choice of Lovecraftian horrors, I vote for Narlyhotep over Cthulhu every time. I know they say Narlyhotep is a dirty african socialist, but he just wants society to exist so we can worship at his yellow robed feet. And Cthulhu is basically running on the platform of "vote for me and I will eat you all". And don't even get me started on Azathoth, sure it claims to be a viable alternative, but then madness and all you can do is chant "vote Azathoth 2012!" whenever anyone expresses the slightest dissatisfaction with the status quo.
The military will advance particle physics when they can shrink the accelerator small enough to mount it in a turret.
Tibet is "owned" by the PRC.
Yea. That is not available in America, at all.
Only a few neighborhoods in a few cities have 100megabit services, and those are around $100/month.
Most of America is served by single digit megabit cable and dsl, at $50+/month.
Yay, the power of telephone and cable monopolies.
The comparison is pretty odd.
Most people with cell phones no longer have land lines. Giving up the cell phone means giving up phone entirely. That makes you nearly unemployable. No one will hire you without a phone number. Phone service is the absolute last thing you should consider eliminating.
Giving up eating out? most people have food in their house anyway, and eating at home is not only cheaper but generally healthier.
where the hell do you get 100 megabit for $15? I can't even get 56k dialup for $15 (33.6k is a possibility though).
No.
Its more like, if I give you a key to my house and safe and tell you "only put stuff in the safe, not take it out", It isn't a considered breaking and entering if you use those keys to open the safe and take stuff out. It would just be theft.
Hitlers faith in the blame of the jews, the religion of his own construction was responsible for the Holocaust.
If it was herd immunity, you would still expect to see a significantly higher number of infected amongst the unvaccinated.
The general population is insufficiently rational to come to that conclusion.