Actually, I'm inclined to make an encrypted document titled "How to overthrow a government", but the unencrypted document would be nothing but the word 'monkey' repeated several thousand times.
Here's the thing, though... if an ISP starts having different service levels based on the site you're browsing to/downloading from, wouldn't that cause them to lose common carrier status?
I'm not saying that they don't have secret documents. I'm saying that there is no Ultra-level 5 Catholic theology that must be studied at a cost of many thousands of dollars and is required to be a "good Catholic".
But there are OT levels in Scientology that they don't tell you about, that you can't even learn about until you've spent thousands of dollars taking the classes for. These are things that they don't tell the people who are just joining the Church of Scientology. You can go years in the CoS without hearing about Xenu and all that, and yet it's a core part of their belief structure (the origin of thetans).
Dude, I live in the Deep South (but I wasn't born here... kind of like a reverse-Beverly Hillbillies thing) and there are people I work with who eat pickled pigs feet and put ketchup on their scrambled eggs. Putting sour sauce on scrambled eggs doesn't sound that much weirder.
But see, anyone can buy the Book of Mormon, or any of a variety of versions of the Bible, the Qu'ran, whatever. There's no "Super Secret Mark IX Bible containing the wisdom of Jesus in his fight against the Mechanoids of Planet Plargh" that you must study to be a Christian.
There's no super-dooper wonder Qu'ran that you only have access to after years and many thousands of dollars of studying Islam.
But there are documents that the Church of Scientology doesn't release to the general public (like all the folderol about Xenu) which they claim are trade secrets. And your standard CoS member doesn't learn about Xenu and the like until spending thousands of dollars on auditing and training courses in the Church.
Imagine a Christian Church where you didn't learn about the death and resurrection of Jesus until you'd been a member in good standing for several years AND had paid thousands of dollars into the church's coffers? Sounds pretty weird, doesn't it? But that's the model the Church of Scientology works on. You don't find out the stuff that sounds like amazingly bad sci-fi (what a shock, considering it was all written by an amazingly bad sci-fi writer) until you've been in the CoS for years. Until you've spent thousands of dollars on it. Until you've probably been brainwashed.
Now, the Catholic Church and the various branches of Islam aren't lily-white and pure either. But they don't charge you thousands of dollars for "the truth" and pull all the legalistic bullshit that the CoS has done. (Mind you, the Catholic church has that whole altar boy issue to work out.....)
If it was actually "You downloaded this movie, you owe us the retail value of the DVD." or suchlike, then I don't think most/.ers would have nearly as much of a problem. It's the whole "You 'made available' a handful of mp3s, you owe us millions of dollars." crap, the attempted extortion from kids, dead people and the elderly, and every other craptacular legislative thing that the MPAA and the RIAA has done that makes us not like their tactics.
Again, with a 3 cm range, they're either going to have to be stacked in a very interesting topological manner (which, okay, could look rather neat), or they're going to have to be so close to some central hub that they might as well be plugged in anyway.
Explain to me how this is better then just plugging a device in? That requires intent. Got a new device and want to transfer your address book to it? Plug it in. Don't want anyone to be able to access it? Don't connect to their device.
The 3 cm range combines almost a complete lack of usefullness with a sense of false security.
With a range of 3 centimeters, the video camera transmitting part would have to practically be touching the TV receiving part. Now, I haven't looked at most brands of video cameras or TVs, but it seems that they're not generally constructed with a 3 centimeter transmission range in mind.
Yes, it's more "secure" in that your neighbors or the creepy guy down the hall won't be able to intercept it given the amazingly short allowable transmission range, but when weighed against the usefulness of the incredibly short transmission range (i.e. none to speak of).... it seems incredibly pointless for Sony to try and push this.
I fail to see how something with such a short range makes it idiot-proof. In fact, given the remarkably small range, it makes it more likely that some irate middle-aged man will slam the thing down on a computer desk and scream that it doesn't work while his younger co-worker/relative tries to explain that it needs to be much closer to the receiving system to work.
Meanwhile, everyone using the wireless system with the 3-meter range will be able to have the freedom to move around and not have to inscribe little circle templates on everything to indicate the radius of operability.
Okay, transfer rate is higher, and there's the "security" features... but those features also cripple it. Only useable over a distance of 3 centimeters? Wow... you can just see what will happen... a device with one of these gets nudged a half-inch and stops, well, working. (Before anyone jumps in that I can't do math, yes, I know 3 cm = 1.18 inches. But with such a short range, all it would take is a small nudge to put it out of range. And a half-inch is a very small nudge.)
Good Christ.... that story reads like the first issue of Warren Ellis' comic "Fell". I'm not kidding.... the murder that was investigated in the first issue of the comic was basically the same kind of thing. Man unable to drink alcohol takes it rectally instead, and dies when his wife uses hard liquor instead of wine.
Unless, of course, you're not using A/C regulated by one of these provided thermostats... you know, like a window-mounted a/c unit? Because lord knows, none of those are made outside of California's purview...
Okay, so in my original reply, the parent (Planesdragon) asked for examples, and I listed some, and you're busting my balls because it's anecdotal evidence?
Of course it is, you jackass. I gave examples, like he asked, not a complete historical breakdown over which gender has had the shit kicked out of it more in comics and permanently suffered because of it. For fuck's sake, it's not like I'm claiming comics are anti-Native American because the original Thunderbird is one of the few X-Men to die permanently.
But if they're popular enough, they're not intended to stay dead anyway. Do you think that the writers of the Doomsday story in the Superman titles ever intended for the big blue boy scout to stay dead? Hell no.
Plus, the point trying to be made here is that there is a lot of history towards "unpopular male character retires or dies only to return for a later comic as needed" as well as "unpopular female character dies or get crippled or tortured only to never return".
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I'm offended by members of your religion blowing themselves up in populated areas as terrorist acts. When you stop doing that, then we can talk.
Actually, I'm inclined to make an encrypted document titled "How to overthrow a government", but the unencrypted document would be nothing but the word 'monkey' repeated several thousand times.
Here's the thing, though... if an ISP starts having different service levels based on the site you're browsing to/downloading from, wouldn't that cause them to lose common carrier status?
Lucky you. I call people like this "customers".
I'm not saying that they don't have secret documents. I'm saying that there is no Ultra-level 5 Catholic theology that must be studied at a cost of many thousands of dollars and is required to be a "good Catholic".
But there are OT levels in Scientology that they don't tell you about, that you can't even learn about until you've spent thousands of dollars taking the classes for. These are things that they don't tell the people who are just joining the Church of Scientology. You can go years in the CoS without hearing about Xenu and all that, and yet it's a core part of their belief structure (the origin of thetans).
I fail to see the problem. The GP said 17 & 18.
17 + 18 = 35.
You keep saying that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
Dude, I live in the Deep South (but I wasn't born here... kind of like a reverse-Beverly Hillbillies thing) and there are people I work with who eat pickled pigs feet and put ketchup on their scrambled eggs. Putting sour sauce on scrambled eggs doesn't sound that much weirder.
But see, anyone can buy the Book of Mormon, or any of a variety of versions of the Bible, the Qu'ran, whatever. There's no "Super Secret Mark IX Bible containing the wisdom of Jesus in his fight against the Mechanoids of Planet Plargh" that you must study to be a Christian.
There's no super-dooper wonder Qu'ran that you only have access to after years and many thousands of dollars of studying Islam.
But there are documents that the Church of Scientology doesn't release to the general public (like all the folderol about Xenu) which they claim are trade secrets. And your standard CoS member doesn't learn about Xenu and the like until spending thousands of dollars on auditing and training courses in the Church.
Imagine a Christian Church where you didn't learn about the death and resurrection of Jesus until you'd been a member in good standing for several years AND had paid thousands of dollars into the church's coffers? Sounds pretty weird, doesn't it? But that's the model the Church of Scientology works on. You don't find out the stuff that sounds like amazingly bad sci-fi (what a shock, considering it was all written by an amazingly bad sci-fi writer) until you've been in the CoS for years. Until you've spent thousands of dollars on it. Until you've probably been brainwashed.
Now, the Catholic Church and the various branches of Islam aren't lily-white and pure either. But they don't charge you thousands of dollars for "the truth" and pull all the legalistic bullshit that the CoS has done. (Mind you, the Catholic church has that whole altar boy issue to work out.....)
You know any other religions that hide their "religious documents" from casual viewing by calling them trade secrets?
If it was actually "You downloaded this movie, you owe us the retail value of the DVD." or suchlike, then I don't think most /.ers would have nearly as much of a problem. It's the whole "You 'made available' a handful of mp3s, you owe us millions of dollars." crap, the attempted extortion from kids, dead people and the elderly, and every other craptacular legislative thing that the MPAA and the RIAA has done that makes us not like their tactics.
A comic almost four years old, but they still knew who would direct that turkey.
Gabe and Tycho are obviously psychic.
That, however, doesn't explain how they got my pants.
Again, with a 3 cm range, they're either going to have to be stacked in a very interesting topological manner (which, okay, could look rather neat), or they're going to have to be so close to some central hub that they might as well be plugged in anyway.
If they're supposed to remain in contact, why even have a range at all? Why not have it plug in to something?
Explain to me how this is better then just plugging a device in? That requires intent. Got a new device and want to transfer your address book to it? Plug it in. Don't want anyone to be able to access it? Don't connect to their device.
The 3 cm range combines almost a complete lack of usefullness with a sense of false security.
With a range of 3 centimeters, the video camera transmitting part would have to practically be touching the TV receiving part. Now, I haven't looked at most brands of video cameras or TVs, but it seems that they're not generally constructed with a 3 centimeter transmission range in mind.
Yes, it's more "secure" in that your neighbors or the creepy guy down the hall won't be able to intercept it given the amazingly short allowable transmission range, but when weighed against the usefulness of the incredibly short transmission range (i.e. none to speak of).... it seems incredibly pointless for Sony to try and push this.
I fail to see how something with such a short range makes it idiot-proof. In fact, given the remarkably small range, it makes it more likely that some irate middle-aged man will slam the thing down on a computer desk and scream that it doesn't work while his younger co-worker/relative tries to explain that it needs to be much closer to the receiving system to work.
Meanwhile, everyone using the wireless system with the 3-meter range will be able to have the freedom to move around and not have to inscribe little circle templates on everything to indicate the radius of operability.
why anyone would prefer Sony's version?
Okay, transfer rate is higher, and there's the "security" features... but those features also cripple it. Only useable over a distance of 3 centimeters? Wow... you can just see what will happen... a device with one of these gets nudged a half-inch and stops, well, working. (Before anyone jumps in that I can't do math, yes, I know 3 cm = 1.18 inches. But with such a short range, all it would take is a small nudge to put it out of range. And a half-inch is a very small nudge.)
The one about the dead naked couple in South Carolina is true, though. It happened not too far from where I live.
Some of the others, eh, who knows?
Good Christ.... that story reads like the first issue of Warren Ellis' comic "Fell". I'm not kidding.... the murder that was investigated in the first issue of the comic was basically the same kind of thing. Man unable to drink alcohol takes it rectally instead, and dies when his wife uses hard liquor instead of wine.
Unless, of course, you're not using A/C regulated by one of these provided thermostats... you know, like a window-mounted a/c unit? Because lord knows, none of those are made outside of California's purview...
OH THANK GOD.
Okay, so in my original reply, the parent (Planesdragon) asked for examples, and I listed some, and you're busting my balls because it's anecdotal evidence?
Of course it is, you jackass. I gave examples, like he asked, not a complete historical breakdown over which gender has had the shit kicked out of it more in comics and permanently suffered because of it. For fuck's sake, it's not like I'm claiming comics are anti-Native American because the original Thunderbird is one of the few X-Men to die permanently.
You do know that Jason Todd is alive again, right?
But if they're popular enough, they're not intended to stay dead anyway. Do you think that the writers of the Doomsday story in the Superman titles ever intended for the big blue boy scout to stay dead? Hell no.
Plus, the point trying to be made here is that there is a lot of history towards "unpopular male character retires or dies only to return for a later comic as needed" as well as "unpopular female character dies or get crippled or tortured only to never return".