Tell the big pharmas they can make more money by eliminating this *cough* competition. Let them go after the spammers. Better still. Let the pharmas outsource that to the terrorists of music industry. They REALLY know how to deal with the internet. Or at least how to demolish it. And spam is a part of the internet I would LOVE to see demolished.
Well. Actually I doubt that. ONE FRELLING MONTH. Given the fact that the average spam / scam site relocates to a new URL in no time, how hard can it be to change bank accounts every two weeks?
I'm sure the Dutch are preparing to storm your embassy and burn some flags as we speak. After all, television learns me that is a way of reacting that should be respected.
As inventor, life gets more interesting. Just publish your inventions. If somebody files a patent that involves your invention, tell them you want your share of the money or you'll have their patent invalidated by prior art.
There are so many people connected to it, there will always be people who are offended by something you say or draw. If it's a cartoon about Mohamed or a cartoon about the ww2 holocaust, abortion, homosexuality and so on and so on. You name it, there will be people who are offended.
The point is NOT if an opinion is the right one or not, but how to deal with the differences in opinion. Differences in opinion are not new, but without global communication the exposure to different opinions is a lot smaller and if people don't know about the other opinions, there is no reason to bother. But internet changed the world in that sense. At least for the part of the world that has internet.
The question is should you think about all the possible people that you might offend with your opinion? Should you keep it to yourself? Probably not.
If somebody in an other country does or says something that somebody else doesn't like, do you have the right to punish somebody for that? If Assange has to be extradited because of WikiLeaks pisses off governments, shouldn't cartoonists be extradited as well?
But how about the consequences of the actions. So far Assanges actions haven't lead to any major security incidents. Ok, Information was leaked, but nobody died. Is he responsible? For what exactly? Mohamed cartoons on the other hand HAVE lead to a lot of damage and deaths. Are the cartoonists responsible for that?
Same thing for a bad joke. If I tell it to my friends, it's not a problem, but if I post it on the internet, suddenly it is, because others might be offended?
Internet makes a lot of information and opinions publicly available. Hell, it even could expose you to porn and bad jokes. Things have changed since the internet. We will have to accept we might run into different opinions, that were always there to begin with. Toughen up and deal with it in an adult manner or cancel your internet subscription.
Just consider it yourself, when you're 60, do you want to be spending your evenings and weekends reading up on the latest tooling to do the stuff you used to do decades ago? You probably won't.
Actually, probably I will. If it gives me the possibility to generate database abstraction layers in a minute instead of writing them myself or to just configure a web service, instead of writing the whole sockets handling and stuff, I think it's worth it.
I totally agree with you. But also as an architect, you need to keep up with technology and actually WORK with it to understand the possibilities it offers. Personally I'm following that route as well. Improving my architecture skills, my project management skills as well as my coaching skills. All that because I, like you, don't believe just being able to code it a good strategy after 40.
Part of what you say is right. There will always be a new BS system that is hot and new and whatever, but with the experience you have by now, you should be able to make good decisions about using them or wait until they're mature. Tools WILL help you, until they don't, but at that moment your experience should help you understand the problem and help you solve it. "concentrated my efforts on actually making stuff that works" makes me think you're not just making fancy websites. If so, your experience with design patterns and things like that should give you an intellectual edge over the new kid.
In your career, when you were young, you might have stumbled upon that old man doing Fortran (at least I did and he was good at it), but that was the only thing he was good at. It's good to keep up with technology, otherwise you will become that man doing Fortran and it WILL be you and not the dumbed down kiddie and he will be doing the cool projects and not you.
Same with seat belts. Sure. You decide, but if you were found in a car accident and you didn't wear your seatbelt, then it's totally your problem.
You think you're an individual, but you're just a number in the statistics and is the statistics say people don't know how to ride a bike and it's better to wear a helmet, you wear one. It sucks, but no excuses.
The government makes many decisions for you. This is just one of them.
Something like #7 will do the trick : 3D Systems® reserves the right to amend these Terms of Service at any time and without notice, and it is your responsibility to review these Terms of Service for any changes. [snip]
For technical people like us, it's totally obvious what's happening, but still "a bit long and boring". What this video need is a shorter version (3 minutes tops, I think) that explains what's happening in wording that my mother will understand. Then it will be very useful to educate the non-technical rest of the world and make them aware of the ***** **** ******kers ******** ** out there and prevent them for falling for this ***t.
You should take a look what people do to their pictures using Whatevergram. I can't imagine they'll mind a little extra purple in their pictures. Actually, it adds a little authentic hipster feeling to it..
They ARE your fucking parent. They tell you to do many things. They tell you to wear seat belts so you do. They tell you to not go faster than x mph because it's safe. If not for you, then for the one you crash into. And now they tell you to use the new light bulbs, because they save energy. Maybe you don't care, but my children will. And the government knows that. So listen to your parents.
Many EULA's state you can't use the product or service or whatever for terrorism and other shit. Is printing a gun falls under "terrorism and other shit" it's totally a good reason to end the LEASE contract and has nothing to do with censorship.
You may quote me, but not if doing so could, in any way, directly or indirectly, do any harm to, but not limited to, others.
Slashdot Mirror
Nobody NEEDS 12Mbits/sec on a phone.
Tell the big pharmas they can make more money by eliminating this *cough* competition.
Let them go after the spammers.
Better still. Let the pharmas outsource that to the terrorists of music industry.
They REALLY know how to deal with the internet.
Or at least how to demolish it.
And spam is a part of the internet I would LOVE to see demolished.
Well. Actually I doubt that. ONE FRELLING MONTH.
Given the fact that the average spam / scam site relocates to a new URL in no time, how hard can it be to change bank accounts every two weeks?
I'm sure the Dutch are preparing to storm your embassy and burn some flags as we speak.
After all, television learns me that is a way of reacting that should be respected.
Perhaps somebody was running some unit test on production here?
As inventor, life gets more interesting. Just publish your inventions.
If somebody files a patent that involves your invention, tell them you want your share of the money or you'll have their patent invalidated by prior art.
Oh, and tell them win-win and Ying Yang as well :)
9 engines of LOX on the rocket, 9 engines of LOX
drop one down, blow it around
8 engines of LOX on the rocket....
There are so many people connected to it, there will always be people who are offended by something you say or draw.
If it's a cartoon about Mohamed or a cartoon about the ww2 holocaust, abortion, homosexuality and so on and so on.
You name it, there will be people who are offended.
The point is NOT if an opinion is the right one or not, but how to deal with the differences in opinion. Differences in opinion are not new, but without global communication the exposure to different opinions is a lot smaller and if people don't know about the other opinions, there is no reason to bother. But internet changed the world in that sense. At least for the part of the world that has internet.
The question is should you think about all the possible people that you might offend with your opinion? Should you keep it to yourself? Probably not.
If somebody in an other country does or says something that somebody else doesn't like, do you have the right to punish somebody for that?
If Assange has to be extradited because of WikiLeaks pisses off governments, shouldn't cartoonists be extradited as well?
But how about the consequences of the actions. So far Assanges actions haven't lead to any major security incidents. Ok, Information was leaked, but nobody died. Is he responsible? For what exactly? Mohamed cartoons on the other hand HAVE lead to a lot of damage and deaths. Are the cartoonists responsible for that?
Same thing for a bad joke. If I tell it to my friends, it's not a problem, but if I post it on the internet, suddenly it is, because others might be offended?
Internet makes a lot of information and opinions publicly available. Hell, it even could expose you to porn and bad jokes. Things have changed since the internet. We will have to accept we might run into different opinions, that were always there to begin with. Toughen up and deal with it in an adult manner or cancel your internet subscription.
LOL. Doit, doit!
... republican inquisition!
That's because public transport was invented by the communists.
Just consider it yourself, when you're 60, do you want to be spending your evenings and weekends reading up on the latest tooling to do the stuff you used to do decades ago? You probably won't.
Actually, probably I will. If it gives me the possibility to generate database abstraction layers in a minute instead of writing them myself or to just configure a web service, instead of writing the whole sockets handling and stuff, I think it's worth it.
I totally agree with you. But also as an architect, you need to keep up with technology and actually WORK with it to understand the possibilities it offers.
Personally I'm following that route as well. Improving my architecture skills, my project management skills as well as my coaching skills. All that because I, like you, don't believe just being able to code it a good strategy after 40.
Part of what you say is right. There will always be a new BS system that is hot and new and whatever, but with the experience you have by now, you should be able to make good decisions about using them or wait until they're mature.
Tools WILL help you, until they don't, but at that moment your experience should help you understand the problem and help you solve it.
"concentrated my efforts on actually making stuff that works" makes me think you're not just making fancy websites. If so, your experience with design patterns and things like that should give you an intellectual edge over the new kid.
In your career, when you were young, you might have stumbled upon that old man doing Fortran (at least I did and he was good at it), but that was the only thing he was good at. It's good to keep up with technology, otherwise you will become that man doing Fortran and it WILL be you and not the dumbed down kiddie and he will be doing the cool projects and not you.
Same with seat belts.
Sure. You decide, but if you were found in a car accident and you didn't wear your seatbelt, then it's totally your problem.
You think you're an individual, but you're just a number in the statistics and is the statistics say people don't know how to ride a bike and it's better to wear a helmet, you wear one. It sucks, but no excuses.
The government makes many decisions for you. This is just one of them.
Especially the part where the Swiss submarine is docking in those Swiss harbours is interesting.
But while you did this, I used all that confusion to replace the Mona Lisa with a fake one :)
Interestingly enough I found this:
http://cubify.com/info/learn/terms_of_service.aspx#general
Something like #7 will do the trick : 3D Systems® reserves the right to amend these Terms of Service at any time and without notice, and it is your responsibility to review these Terms of Service for any changes. [snip]
For technical people like us, it's totally obvious what's happening, but still "a bit long and boring".
What this video need is a shorter version (3 minutes tops, I think) that explains what's happening in wording that my mother will understand.
Then it will be very useful to educate the non-technical rest of the world and make them aware of the ***** **** ******kers ******** ** out there and prevent them for falling for this ***t.
Coffee AND 24" screen it is then.
You should take a look what people do to their pictures using Whatevergram.
I can't imagine they'll mind a little extra purple in their pictures.
Actually, it adds a little authentic hipster feeling to it..
The US has (from TFA) 300 to 400 metric tons of bomb-grade uranium?!
That... That is.. I mean. Who let them?!
*listens to phil collins and sting once more*
They ARE your fucking parent.
They tell you to do many things. They tell you to wear seat belts so you do. They tell you to not go faster than x mph because it's safe. If not for you, then for the one you crash into.
And now they tell you to use the new light bulbs, because they save energy. Maybe you don't care, but my children will.
And the government knows that. So listen to your parents.
True. Very true. Adding to that, I would find it quite surprising if there wasn't any such clause in the lease contract.
But if you're using my machine and I don't want you to use it to make guns, it's still my machine and you'll need to find an other one.
Many EULA's state you can't use the product or service or whatever for terrorism and other shit. Is printing a gun falls under "terrorism and other shit" it's totally a good reason to end the LEASE contract and has nothing to do with censorship.
You may quote me, but not if doing so could, in any way, directly or indirectly, do any harm to, but not limited to, others.