Man I don't want to rain on the dude's parade, but this is the dumbest piece of artwork I have seen in a long time. It's just scribbles, bunches of them. A thousand scribbles. Boring. I'm looking for art that is difficult to make, not that is easy to make!
When they discovered this one in me in the
hospital, they said I was crazy, delusions
of grandeur they called it. Well so be it;
I created them to think that for the glorification of the Father. Amen.
When God made the universe, he intended for us
to discover it bit by bit. These six new bits
are rather compelling. I'm eager to see what
comes when they are merged into the Grand
Unifying Theory which Einstein sought.
Absolutely my point as I read the article,
glad to know they mentioned Hume by name.
For being a philosopher few have heard about,
unlike Kant or Descartes, Hume sho' did push
the limits of philosophy, which is ALWAYS
several hundred years ahead of all the other
branches of study, 'cept mysticism, which
is generally a few thousand years ahead.
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Now that we know that the resources of Kent Law School are able to be used by the FBI for its purposes, what are you as an individual doing to insure that these purposes are encumbered by the burden of honesty?
You may feel that an honest man has nothing to fear from Carnivore, but Cardinal Richelieu once said "Give me six lines written by the most honest man, and I will find something to hang him." Along those lines, history shows that the FBI tapped Martin Luther King's hotel phones and found solid evidence that he was having affairs. When they sent this evidence to newspapers on condition of anonymity, not a single newspaper printed it. The FBI's legacy of using evidence outside the bounds of Constitutional rights to convict honest and innocent people is well documented in other cases as well.
"What steps are being taken to insure that the FBI is unable to use Carnivore's information to destroy the career of someone as human and as controversial as Martin Luther King, Jr.?
This question is deeply insightful, cutting
right to the core of the issue. It cannot
be answered without causing the person to
reflect on exactly what liberty is being infringed.
However, law school deans can be bought as
easily as anyone else by the FBI, who sent
letters to all major newspapers revealing that
Martin Luther King, Jr. was having affairs,
but on the condition of secrecy. None of the
newspapers were willing to print the information
on that condition, btw. The FBI also sent a
letter to MLK telling him he should probably
commit suicide because they were about to
tell on him. True story.
Hooray for someone who sees through the smoke. Due process MUST be applied, cuz the moment it fails, they're coming after/. and all the other peripheral geniuses. Remember back in the day when M$ was cool, when Gates was a young geek who toppled IBM without ever even going to court? Could happen to you, dude.
Read the constitution closely and you will see the justices are doing exactly what they're commissioned to do, which is interpret that one single document. MicroSoft is just a small thing for them. Sure, lots of people are affected by them, but the issue at core is one of leveraging power. To skip over the appeals process would be the DOJ playing MS's game. I'm glad that it's taking longer because the Supreme Court is saying that it needs to be fully discussed in public before coming to them. Take your time on these kindsa issues--they only come along once in a while.
Good question. Presidents appoint Supreme Court justices, so if you buy the prez, you dictate about twenty years worth of justice by your standards. For a couple of hundred years, that worked fine. Seems to be eroding pretty quickly these past two decades, though. We need another Andrew Jackson. Ralph Nader will do, but not if ya don't vote and encourage others to do so, too.
Fair use is extremely powerful, but it must be used with caution, because those who claim it must be able to justify that their use is not infringing on the market of those whose material they use. There are several tests for "fair use" which include whether the user is making money, whether they are taking marketspace, and so forth. This present situation is dangerous, as are all copyright violations, because freedom of speech is at the core, but money is intertwingled, which makes the law ACTUALLY QUITE SIMPLE, but lawyers get creative with it nevertheless. Supreme Court won't even look at a case like this until ten or fifteen similar ones have been proposed to them, since the the current body of law is pretty full on the issue. Disclaimer about law: One "good" lawyer can stop the bullshit of a thousand typical lawyers. It's just that there's only one per ten thousand who currently qualify.
It used to be access to money. Everybody grab as much data as you can; it's an investment for your kids. I'm serious. Store all them databases ya got access to now in private stashes. It doesn't seem like useful information now, but in twenty years when the BIG databases are looking for databases to fill in their history gaps, the information on your little 3.5 disks will be worth zillions. IAINTNOLAWYER If I were a lawyer, I wouldn't admit it in public, which is probably why I'm not a lawyer.
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Shockwave Rider sounds like an American book. Ever notice how all american movies have happy endings? I think it's because we all migrated here with hope for a better future. European stuff is pretty dreary in comparison. More real, but more dreary. Looks like a book I wanna read, I'm only up to 20,000 keystrokes without a mistake. -Water Paradox
All the hubris of Microsoft, with none of the finesse. At least Bill Gates has impeccable timing, which these guys seem to lurch unsteadily toward. Remember, he started out as a dumpster diver, so he didn't make these kinds of mistakes until he was huge.
Being that I was going to make a decision and download one of those three in the next few days, and being that I like the number seven so much, the decision is finalized by sheer timing, and after twelve years of being a simple user of unix, I'm starting out in administration as a Redhat guy. Hello, world.:-)
-Water Paradox
All systems designed or conceived by the human mind build in the limitation that we humans have to eat food and pass it out in digested form. Think about it. Everything we design has holes in it which are necessary for input and output, because we literally cannot conceive of something which is entirely self-sustaining. Thus, a secure system is simply a _more_ secure system, for there is no way to achieve perfect security given the limits of our own imagination.
Even AI relies on the innate structure we give it: When we design computers to design computers, they're still built with certain limitations in what is possible for us to conceive. The idea of security is kind of like the idea for perpetual motion--the objective exists in a different realm than the purpose. I can see how the author would become depressed over this, for it seems to be a dilemma. It is actually only a reality which must be understood before approaching the unapproachable, like perfect security. I will be interested to read the book to see how he approaches this dilemma. -Water Paradox
Instead of taking the hard way out of the rumors (building better products), Apple decided to take the easy, stereotypical, "corporate ultimatum" way out.
Exactly. Well put, and a lesson we all could apply in everyday life. The hard way is to repair yourself. The easy way is to blame others. Period.
And, regarding karma. The misapplication of karma was bothering me until the writer from India clarified it, and I realized the misapplication is actually simple a neologism, and therefore I now like it! Karma is being used like a void pointer because the conversation is not Indian, but is now going beyond the narrow definition of karma which is applied by people who specialize in it. Thank God for idiots.
The beauty of ignorance is that it can recreate a more functional version of something as limited as karma by simply misunderstanding it. "Karma" as it is used lately here has none of the implications of reincarnation, which is a limited and finite way of looking at things. I prefer the more infinite version that is attached to ONE lifetime, with eternal consequences. That makes what we do here less bound to karma, and more bound to grace. -Water Paradox
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Is that all the MP3s you have? Geez, expand your musical tastes or something. I'd need three of these just to store my MP3s alone.
Water Paradox
Man I don't want to rain on the dude's parade, but this is the dumbest piece of artwork I have seen in a long time. It's just scribbles, bunches of them. A thousand scribbles. Boring. I'm looking for art that is difficult to make, not that is easy to make!
Okay. Name one thing you can explain without reference to God.
When they discovered this one in me in the hospital, they said I was crazy, delusions of grandeur they called it. Well so be it; I created them to think that for the glorification of the Father. Amen.
Please be precise about what believers you accept, for if you accept the above, then you are of no consequence, since you cancel yourself out.
-Water Paradox
It relies on E=Mc2, but demonstrates a quantity of faith consistent with the comment about the mustard seed.
Water Paradox
When God made the universe, he intended for us to discover it bit by bit. These six new bits are rather compelling. I'm eager to see what comes when they are merged into the Grand Unifying Theory which Einstein sought.
Absolutely my point as I read the article, glad to know they mentioned Hume by name. For being a philosopher few have heard about, unlike Kant or Descartes, Hume sho' did push the limits of philosophy, which is ALWAYS several hundred years ahead of all the other branches of study, 'cept mysticism, which is generally a few thousand years ahead.
Several questions which are insightful are receiving 1, while off-topic material is receiving higher scores. Whoever is making the decision on the final 10 questions, please consider supplementing the moderation process with something that reveals diversity, controversy, and insight.
-Water Paradox
Now that we know that the resources of Kent Law School are able to be used by the FBI for its purposes, what are you as an individual doing to insure that these purposes are encumbered by the burden of honesty?
You may feel that an honest man has nothing to fear from Carnivore, but Cardinal Richelieu once said "Give me six lines written by the most honest man, and I will find something to hang him." Along those lines, history shows that the FBI tapped Martin Luther King's hotel phones and found solid evidence that he was having affairs. When they sent this evidence to newspapers on condition of anonymity, not a single newspaper printed it. The FBI's legacy of using evidence outside the bounds of Constitutional rights to convict honest and innocent people is well documented in other cases as well.
"What steps are being taken to insure that the FBI is unable to use Carnivore's information to destroy the career of someone as human and as controversial as Martin Luther King, Jr.?
thank you.
However, law school deans can be bought as easily as anyone else by the FBI, who sent letters to all major newspapers revealing that Martin Luther King, Jr. was having affairs, but on the condition of secrecy. None of the newspapers were willing to print the information on that condition, btw. The FBI also sent a letter to MLK telling him he should probably commit suicide because they were about to tell on him. True story.
Hooray for someone who sees through the smoke. Due process MUST be applied, cuz the moment it fails, they're coming after /. and all the other peripheral geniuses. Remember back in the day when M$ was cool, when Gates was a young geek who toppled IBM without ever even going to court? Could happen to you, dude.
Read the constitution closely and you will see the justices are doing exactly what they're commissioned to do, which is interpret that one single document. MicroSoft is just a small thing for them. Sure, lots of people are affected by them, but the issue at core is one of leveraging power. To skip over the appeals process would be the DOJ playing MS's game. I'm glad that it's taking longer because the Supreme Court is saying that it needs to be fully discussed in public before coming to them. Take your time on these kindsa issues--they only come along once in a while.
Good question. Presidents appoint Supreme Court justices, so if you buy the prez, you dictate about twenty years worth of justice by your standards. For a couple of hundred years, that worked fine. Seems to be eroding pretty quickly these past two decades, though. We need another Andrew Jackson. Ralph Nader will do, but not if ya don't vote and encourage others to do so, too.
Fair use is extremely powerful, but it must be used with caution, because those who claim it must be able to justify that their use is not infringing on the market of those whose material they use. There are several tests for "fair use" which include whether the user is making money, whether they are taking marketspace, and so forth. This present situation is dangerous, as are all copyright violations, because freedom of speech is at the core, but money is intertwingled, which makes the law ACTUALLY QUITE SIMPLE, but lawyers get creative with it nevertheless. Supreme Court won't even look at a case like this until ten or fifteen similar ones have been proposed to them, since the the current body of law is pretty full on the issue. Disclaimer about law: One "good" lawyer can stop the bullshit of a thousand typical lawyers. It's just that there's only one per ten thousand who currently qualify.
It used to be access to money. Everybody grab as much data as you can; it's an investment for your kids. I'm serious. Store all them databases ya got access to now in private stashes. It doesn't seem like useful information now, but in twenty years when the BIG databases are looking for databases to fill in their history gaps, the information on your little 3.5 disks will be worth zillions. IAINTNOLAWYER If I were a lawyer, I wouldn't admit it in public, which is probably why I'm not a lawyer.
Shockwave Rider sounds like an American book. Ever notice how all american movies have happy endings? I think it's because we all migrated here with hope for a better future. European stuff is pretty dreary in comparison. More real, but more dreary. Looks like a book I wanna read, I'm only up to 20,000 keystrokes without a mistake. -Water Paradox
All the hubris of Microsoft, with none of the finesse. At least Bill Gates has impeccable timing, which these guys seem to lurch unsteadily toward. Remember, he started out as a dumpster diver, so he didn't make these kinds of mistakes until he was huge.
Being that I was going to make a decision and download one of those three in the next few days, and being that I like the number seven so much, the decision is finalized by sheer timing, and after twelve years of being a simple user of unix, I'm starting out in administration as a Redhat guy. Hello, world. :-)
-Water Paradox
Even AI relies on the innate structure we give it: When we design computers to design computers, they're still built with certain limitations in what is possible for us to conceive. The idea of security is kind of like the idea for perpetual motion--the objective exists in a different realm than the purpose. I can see how the author would become depressed over this, for it seems to be a dilemma. It is actually only a reality which must be understood before approaching the unapproachable, like perfect security. I will be interested to read the book to see how he approaches this dilemma. -Water Paradox
Instead of taking the hard way out of the rumors (building better products), Apple decided to take the easy, stereotypical, "corporate ultimatum" way out.
Exactly. Well put, and a lesson we all could apply in everyday life. The hard way is to repair yourself. The easy way is to blame others. Period.
And, regarding karma. The misapplication of karma was bothering me until the writer from India clarified it, and I realized the misapplication is actually simple a neologism, and therefore I now like it! Karma is being used like a void pointer because the conversation is not Indian, but is now going beyond the narrow definition of karma which is applied by people who specialize in it. Thank God for idiots.
The beauty of ignorance is that it can recreate a more functional version of something as limited as karma by simply misunderstanding it. "Karma" as it is used lately here has none of the implications of reincarnation, which is a limited and finite way of looking at things. I prefer the more infinite version that is attached to ONE lifetime, with eternal consequences. That makes what we do here less bound to karma, and more bound to grace. -Water Paradox