I find it very unlikely that very many people at all would have repeat cycles of having children. I find it more likely than not that if women were given the medical possibility of having children "whenever they want," as opposed to "you better get fucking to it by 40," then they would put it off quite a long time while they focused on their careers. There could also be a vastly increased population of folks who don't breed at all, as evidenced by current trends. Once this phenomenology kicks in, you'll have to start looking at death rates from unnatural causes and asking yourself if the Immortals might need to be incentivized to please breed.
Assuming I am right about Immortals seldom having batches in cycles like you say, try the following elementary exercise:
Start with an Immortal population of size N.
Assume all members match and have 2 children. This results in the next generation population, size M.
What's the population growth rate?
Answer: approximately 100%.
However, now take the old generation, and new generation together (N+M, and assume that only M breeds).
This produces a population growth rate of now only 50%.
These calculations trend to 0% effective growth, before taking into account delayed child-bearing, indefinitely deferred child bearing, death from unnatural causes, etc etc.
You seriously need to look at the mathematics of it all from scratch. Ask yourself a wide varieties of questions about 1st world countries, breeding rates, traditional reasons for having children, and so forth, and you'll quickly calculate a risk that an immortal world could be the opposite of what you say: a world in which the population slowly trends downward. Don't take my word for it. Consider the issues.
You go: Well, a lot of our problems come from lack of excercise and bad diet. So... we need to tweak our bodies to no longer be troubled by that.
Personally, I'd prefer to see a social and economic reevaluation, that just plain leaves you more time and resources to live a more healthy life in the first place.
You seem to be suggesting that one has to pick between the two. The natural youthful state of the body is that it both needs exercise, but also responds to that exercise much more quickly (and painlessly!) than it does when one is older. Putting the body into a youthful state will not remove the need for exercise. Although if someone is the type to dream up the perfect medical treatment, that lets them enjoy all the benefits of exercise without the exercise itself, because I guess they think that swimming, skiing, mountaineering and the like aren't fun--well who are we to lobby against them? Let them have their dreams.
Let's be real, though. Hours of drudgery on an exercise bike and so forth--this is just drudgery. So you have to acknowledge a little of what they are saying even while, perhaps, they may be missing a bit of yours.
You are making the erroneous assumption that age-related ennui--which is to say, the lack of lust for life you are feeling right now--is not a symptom of aging.
The only thing I see fixing this constant "We'll offshore! We'll offshore!" is the creation of a setup whereby you pay taxes on each dollar (euro, yen, pound, yuan, what have you) in the country where it is made, regardless of where it ultimately goes.
You're catching on. We need to steer away from income taxes altogether, and switch to something like the Fair Tax. With that, problem solved. Taxes collected in-country, every time.
Sue this person personally. His corporation being bankrupt has little to do with it, as a corporation does not provide a liability shield in cases of personal misconduct of its employees or executives.
Do a title search on him. You want to find if he has a home. Equity and the homeowner's liability umbrella are what you need to target.
If he doesn't have a home now, bide your time. Most states give you about 7 years leeway.
He knows he sued the wrong people, he says as much in the summary when he mentions the corporation went bankrupt.
I'm a little confused, though. Why sue the corporation? Sue the bad actors, whoever it was who lied and made shit up. Did THEY declare bankruptcy? Just because they were working for a corporation does not protect them from civil prosecution.
The described series of events so far do appear to be negligent to me, at best.
While it might be difficult to prove their actions WILLFUL, this situation stinks of "willing to take money to fuck someone over when the whole situation sounds like a crapfest."
Paid for it in a sauna. LOL. Don't expect me to believe they believed that.
It's different, because in this case it's the same company controlling both the product that everyone uses, and the pay edition. There is suspicion that they will stop adding new features to the free edition in order to incentivize folks to buy the pay edition. Essentially, it's a trust problem.
"Actually"? Whereupon do you draw you belief in "actually"?
You said, "since the copying happens on their machine and is sent to yours". This is not true and is not how computers work. Once those bytes get to you, your computer does in fact make copies of them.
Your statement also suggests that you do not think you are culpable if you initiate a bad thing with an automated system. This is an attempt to shift blame from the initiator to the automata, roughly analogous to a driver saying "well yes, I started the car, applied the gas pedal, steered it in the right direction, but the CAR hit that pedestrian, sir".
In any case, I think what you may wish to do some actual research about copyright law. Things aren't the way you are hoping. For example, have you considered whether or not it is possible to be in illegal possession of bootlegged material?
It's worthwhile to note that if EVERYONE else is speeding, but only YOU get the ticket, you may very well have a case against the ticket. I.e., if everyone else is doing it, so to speak, the law is on your side.
It is OBVIOUS, given the nature of US derivative works, that any specific work could be derivative of another and requires no further elaboration. Of COURSE a rights holder could be a holder of rights upstream, in essence the work from which the offending work is derivative. Anything else would be silly-stupid. Imagine I made a derivative work of Lord of the Rings, registered the copyright, and then published it online. It would be strange indeed that the Tolkien Foundation could not object to the publication. That was part of my question: "so what content are they saying they are the rights holder/agent of"?
Are you saying that every thin client should be uplinked in a dual-redundant configuration to a distribution switch HA pair? Because that's the only way you're going to eliminate a chance of bulk outage.
Much of the world has no need to regulate birth rates. If you read down to the American section, you'll see we have a replacement rate of 1.9. 2.0 is break even. Much of Europe has lower numbers. If US population is a concern of yours, you have no real choice but to lobby for an end to immigration, because all of our growth actually comes from that.
Perhaps you should ask the Chinese how wonderful 'population control' has been?... Now they have a rapidly aging population with about 50,000,000 more men than women.
Dude, I don't need to ask them their opinion to know what a wonderful means of population control they have. Men can't get pregnant. Just a little FYI for ya there.:-)
I'm not that terribly worried about it domestically, as we are getting by with what we have and birth-death is net negative (only immigrants account for our pop growth). We could, thus, simply stop all immigration.
I saw a convincing scientific paper proving that new IP addresses are being naturally generated deep inside the core, due to the intense network pressures and the like, percolating ever upwards from the depths of the net, until voila!, new fields of IP addresses can be readily exploited.
Their wiki is pleasant to use and a snap to manage. All of their products are quite affordable to any corporation. Typically something like $8K will get you an unlimited user edition. Sometimes less, depends on which product.
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What, in your mind, is responsible for the delta in birth rates in 1st and 3rd world countries?
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I find it very unlikely that very many people at all would have repeat cycles of having children. I find it more likely than not that if women were given the medical possibility of having children "whenever they want," as opposed to "you better get fucking to it by 40," then they would put it off quite a long time while they focused on their careers. There could also be a vastly increased population of folks who don't breed at all, as evidenced by current trends. Once this phenomenology kicks in, you'll have to start looking at death rates from unnatural causes and asking yourself if the Immortals might need to be incentivized to please breed.
Assuming I am right about Immortals seldom having batches in cycles like you say, try the following elementary exercise:
Start with an Immortal population of size N.
Assume all members match and have 2 children. This results in the next generation population, size M.
What's the population growth rate?
Answer: approximately 100%.
However, now take the old generation, and new generation together (N+M, and assume that only M breeds).
This produces a population growth rate of now only 50%.
These calculations trend to 0% effective growth, before taking into account delayed child-bearing, indefinitely deferred child bearing, death from unnatural causes, etc etc.
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You seriously need to look at the mathematics of it all from scratch. Ask yourself a wide varieties of questions about 1st world countries, breeding rates, traditional reasons for having children, and so forth, and you'll quickly calculate a risk that an immortal world could be the opposite of what you say: a world in which the population slowly trends downward. Don't take my word for it. Consider the issues.
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You go: Well, a lot of our problems come from lack of excercise and bad diet. So... we need to tweak our bodies to no longer be troubled by that.
Personally, I'd prefer to see a social and economic reevaluation, that just plain leaves you more time and resources to live a more healthy life in the first place.
You seem to be suggesting that one has to pick between the two. The natural youthful state of the body is that it both needs exercise, but also responds to that exercise much more quickly (and painlessly!) than it does when one is older. Putting the body into a youthful state will not remove the need for exercise. Although if someone is the type to dream up the perfect medical treatment, that lets them enjoy all the benefits of exercise without the exercise itself, because I guess they think that swimming, skiing, mountaineering and the like aren't fun--well who are we to lobby against them? Let them have their dreams.
Let's be real, though. Hours of drudgery on an exercise bike and so forth--this is just drudgery. So you have to acknowledge a little of what they are saying even while, perhaps, they may be missing a bit of yours.
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You are making the erroneous assumption that age-related ennui--which is to say, the lack of lust for life you are feeling right now--is not a symptom of aging.
This is a mistake.
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The only thing I see fixing this constant "We'll offshore! We'll offshore!" is the creation of a setup whereby you pay taxes on each dollar (euro, yen, pound, yuan, what have you) in the country where it is made, regardless of where it ultimately goes.
You're catching on. We need to steer away from income taxes altogether, and switch to something like the Fair Tax. With that, problem solved. Taxes collected in-country, every time.
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Intelligence as measured by IQ tests will improve with education...
Not a well-designed IQ test, no. Tests of childhood intelligence might give you this impression, but this is because the brain is still developing.
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Sue this person personally. His corporation being bankrupt has little to do with it, as a corporation does not provide a liability shield in cases of personal misconduct of its employees or executives.
Do a title search on him. You want to find if he has a home. Equity and the homeowner's liability umbrella are what you need to target.
If he doesn't have a home now, bide your time. Most states give you about 7 years leeway.
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He knows he sued the wrong people, he says as much in the summary when he mentions the corporation went bankrupt.
I'm a little confused, though. Why sue the corporation? Sue the bad actors, whoever it was who lied and made shit up. Did THEY declare bankruptcy? Just because they were working for a corporation does not protect them from civil prosecution.
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The described series of events so far do appear to be negligent to me, at best.
While it might be difficult to prove their actions WILLFUL, this situation stinks of "willing to take money to fuck someone over when the whole situation sounds like a crapfest."
Paid for it in a sauna. LOL. Don't expect me to believe they believed that.
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How is this any different?
It's different, because in this case it's the same company controlling both the product that everyone uses, and the pay edition. There is suspicion that they will stop adding new features to the free edition in order to incentivize folks to buy the pay edition. Essentially, it's a trust problem.
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"Actually"? Whereupon do you draw you belief in "actually"?
You said, "since the copying happens on their machine and is sent to yours". This is not true and is not how computers work. Once those bytes get to you, your computer does in fact make copies of them.
Your statement also suggests that you do not think you are culpable if you initiate a bad thing with an automated system. This is an attempt to shift blame from the initiator to the automata, roughly analogous to a driver saying "well yes, I started the car, applied the gas pedal, steered it in the right direction, but the CAR hit that pedestrian, sir".
In any case, I think what you may wish to do some actual research about copyright law. Things aren't the way you are hoping. For example, have you considered whether or not it is possible to be in illegal possession of bootlegged material?
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She could register...
It's worthwhile to note that if EVERYONE else is speeding, but only YOU get the ticket, you may very well have a case against the ticket. I.e., if everyone else is doing it, so to speak, the law is on your side.
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl122.html
"Copyright law does not protect recipes that are mere listings of ingredients."
It is OBVIOUS, given the nature of US derivative works, that any specific work could be derivative of another and requires no further elaboration. Of COURSE a rights holder could be a holder of rights upstream, in essence the work from which the offending work is derivative. Anything else would be silly-stupid. Imagine I made a derivative work of Lord of the Rings, registered the copyright, and then published it online. It would be strange indeed that the Tolkien Foundation could not object to the publication. That was part of my question: "so what content are they saying they are the rights holder/agent of"?
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It is perjury (a criminal act) to issue a DMCA takedown request when the requester is not the rights holder or their designated agent.
So what content are they saying they are a rights holder/agent of?
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Second of all, if the core router goes down, they're probably just as fucked as they currently are.
If someone designs a large virtual desktop infrastructure without a redundant core, someone should be encouraged to write their resume.
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Are you saying that every thin client should be uplinked in a dual-redundant configuration to a distribution switch HA pair? Because that's the only way you're going to eliminate a chance of bulk outage.
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See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility
Much of the world has no need to regulate birth rates. If you read down to the American section, you'll see we have a replacement rate of 1.9. 2.0 is break even. Much of Europe has lower numbers. If US population is a concern of yours, you have no real choice but to lobby for an end to immigration, because all of our growth actually comes from that.
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Perhaps you should ask the Chinese how wonderful 'population control' has been? ... Now they have a rapidly aging population with about 50,000,000 more men than women.
Dude, I don't need to ask them their opinion to know what a wonderful means of population control they have. Men can't get pregnant. Just a little FYI for ya there. :-)
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I'd worry about water, first.
I'm not that terribly worried about it domestically, as we are getting by with what we have and birth-death is net negative (only immigrants account for our pop growth). We could, thus, simply stop all immigration.
Still, the water problem is a biggun.
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If what you want is a wiki, and you use Plone over Confluence... unless your decision is financial... you are brain dead.
That said, other posters have already pointed out that Plone is a CMS, and Confluence is a Wiki.
Somewhat applesy-orangey here going on, IOW.
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I saw a convincing scientific paper proving that new IP addresses are being naturally generated deep inside the core, due to the intense network pressures and the like, percolating ever upwards from the depths of the net, until voila!, new fields of IP addresses can be readily exploited.
Their wiki is pleasant to use and a snap to manage. All of their products are quite affordable to any corporation. Typically something like $8K will get you an unlimited user edition. Sometimes less, depends on which product.
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