If you listened to these artists while you did anything, their reasoning is that you not only owe them for the music, but you also owe them for what you did while listening to them. They set your brain waves straight!
Kids are great as you get to live life through them. Its a happy, joyful existence. It isn't pockmarked by any of the worrying that I hear those without kids think it would be.
Having a significant other is a blessing. It is good to share life with someone. It also brings more meaning to everything in life.
We ask our friends and neighbors to help watch over town. As a society, we let the people arm themselves as a militia to fight the man "to not take away our freedom's", because "guns are the reason we have freedom", and all the other silly things that are said. We then ask the police to show up with kid gloves on, like somehow they have multiple lives.
If we aren't planning on violently overthrowing the government, then we should store our people killing guns at a safe community place where we all have the combination. In most countries, these places are called things like, The National Guard, or the Army. We could rename it so as to cater to those that don't like ideas that work globally to "American Armed Citizen Gun Storage for Freedom."
If we really do think that we need a violent revolution, then lets get it over with. Those that are in need, let your needs be known now, because this middle ground is killing a whole lot of innocents.
I've never seen anyone need a 15 round clip while hunting an Elk, Deer, Bear's or anything else in North America. I've never seen anyone use a hand-gun when hunting, but maybe pythons?
Our laws are so harsh in this country as it is, that everyone is an example when they get sentenced. Throwing someone in jail for 10 years or 20 years has zero rehabilitation difference if you're only considering them being a "better person" when they get out. I'd argue anything over 5 and you may as well throw away the key. Don't complain when you throw someone in jail, don't help them and then have to support them for the rest of their lives.
This kid and his friends need direct intervention. Anyone on that twitter account should receive a direct phone call from someone that sounds like authority and discuss with them why we don't do this to our fellow neighbors and friends online. That in itself would send a HUGE message...that we actually care about each other, that we treat each other appropriately and out of kindness, and that this is a large community of hundreds of millions, and that we are watching each others backs.
The kid himself needs to face some sort of sentence. He's young though, the news cycle is fast. Any "example" set by him will be quickly forgotten by the masses, only used by the court system to justify harsher sentences for everybody, people won't say "I won't do this cuz that guy got caught."
There is nothing more jolting to people that think they are getting away with things, than at least letting them know "we are paying attention to your vile behavior." Very few internet trolls would publicly do what they currently do. Outing people is a great way in terms of effectiveness and cost.
There are so many things that need to be fixed and addressed, and until they are, they're all hanging chad's in our society. Until we figure them out, these things are going to happen, people will say "more jail time", "more laws", but nothing changes when you don't change the way we deal with life.
You're spot on. Their chess game has moved more in the last couple of years than in decades. The fact that so many Americans even put them on the same level is a huge step. People now thinking they are comparing yabloki to yabloki, is a huge win for the Kremlin.
I have never seen a "good" commercial for children.
These commercials create a sense of want where there should be none to start with. Kids aren't *insert new toy* deficient, as they think they are, after seeing a commercial for what they don't have. All this does is create tension where there should be none to start with.
-- My little pony and me -- Little girl from My Little Pony commercial
They are shining a bright light on the world they live in and operate in right now. If they put those words in there, you have a large group of ideologues that will outright, not look at it, therefore not fund the CDC, as "those people" aren't "their people."
It is them yelling HELP! They are not allowed to tread into politics per their job titles. They are screaming that there is a large number of people that already can not hear these words for sake of them not being re-elected, or that they simply don't care that there is science, and other *things* outside of their religion (and I use the term very loosely here).
It should be a very stark warning to all of us, that this isn't just happening now, it has already happened. Their hands are being tied by entire groups that thinks science that accepts anything other than their own is bad science. They have a base that believes this as well, and will back them up.
These people don't look at a world of people that are different. They look at the world through a lens where only they are right, and everyone else is wrong. Anything not serving their own self interests is a waste of time and money, and a clear example of a bloated government.
-- Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain
The news that kicked off these stories was a piece taken out of context. Purposefully or not, we'll never really know. They'll issue a retraction, half the people will hear that, then half of those will remember there was a retraction.
Without the drive for non-stop, headline news, this wouldn't have been news as it would have been vetted. The editors are clearly in a race for time, to all of our detriment.
This nonsense is terrible for everyone that prints it, ingests it and has to try to un-ingest it. Of course, until everyone puts down their devices, and we all stop, this will happen unless we deter it in a meaningful way. While profits outweigh penalties, the editor will err on the side of being the first to publish.
As much as Facebook is for forums and Google is for card catalogs, crypto-currency is to online money.
I think what most of us skeptics are overlooking is that as people move online, they are moving farther and farther from what we would call the "real world." There is absolutely a place for crytp-currencies. I always think -- but what if it all goes away due to a power outage. The problem with that thinking is that most of the planet doesn't think that way, virtual belongings are here to stay. Kitties, coins, UID's are examples.
Is this a bubble? Yes. Is there a base that does make sense? Yes. It may be $10k, it may be $50k. Is it another crypto-currency? I'd guess we will see multiple ones rise to the top as long sustaining currencies. We already do see upward pressure on hundreds of them.
This isn't going to go away. The question is what is the base price vs. what is the bubble price.
I can't imagine why this is good for anything, or anyone, or who would want this. Didn't they just say they were going to try to not ruin the world any more than they have already contributed to doing so, with their "schtik" the other day?
Who wants ad's in their forums anyhow? They should talk to SourceForge.
If we as a people decide that it is a good thing to regulate these businesses, then it should be so. If these companies do not want to be in this business, they can all go somewhere else... or so by their logic, they would tell the people.
The comment period was a joke, and the comments that were made were not taken seriously. The entire point of a government is for the people to come to some consensus, and when a leader of an agency blatantly doesn't care, the agency needs to have its feet held to the fire.
There is no doubt that the internet is now a utility that we all use and need. There is no doubt that the cost of getting into the game is so high that most people could never jump in. There has to be some protections.
What did we get when we went to the moon? We obtained knowledge. The human spirit was invested in, and proven to be alive and well. It has driven NASA, SpaceX, Boeing, and the list goes on as far as companies. The insights into our own minds and bodies have driven entire other industries. What we 'got' is immeasurable, as we are still getting.
People live in boxes already, all day with fluorescent lights, or if they're lucky, a window office. They drive in a box on wheels to get home. They complain its too cold or hot, so they turn on a machine to change the condition of the air. It is not hard to believe that people would be just fine living in a box in space instead of one on earth.
For people that call themselves explorers, it's done "because it is there." For those that don't understand that, it is impossible to explain why one climbs to the top of mountains and the bottom of holes. It's like telling an explorer why they should need a lawyer and an accountant to navigate life.
Wealth is only measured in dollars by those that limit its definition to that.
I can't agree with your premise, that profit is why we live or do anything.
Even a business that doesn't make any profit for itself, is still a good endeavor if people can feed themselves and be happy. When I say happy, I mean that they feel good about themselves and what they are doing, and enrich their souls.
Sometimes as a species we must give a little bit to grow, and that is called investing, whether it be time, or energy. Not every investment returns an immediate profit. Some may never return a profit measured in dollars, as people may fail, but trying is what counts. We will have the knowledge forever, and that is profit.
Many societies on the planet never cared one bit about profitability. As long as the generations were alive and surviving, that was all they needed.
While you are right if a measure of being happy is looking through the lens of how much I have in the bank, and making the end of year statements not have parenthesis around them, but that isn't living and that isn't what makes most people happy.
Everyone does have different needs, but when we put profitability above all else, we are missing the entire point. I wasn't put on this planet to make a profit, that is a social construct. And to answer the question... I have nothing wrong with companies and people making profits, its just not the end all be all. I also certainly am not railing against any of our constructs, but I don't want our constructs to box us in so that we never do anything as a species.
On a final note, people come first, economies come later. If you put people in space, they will develop an economy among themselves. At that point, we can judge that and figure out how to optimize that. Until then, we are fear mongering as we go over all the reasons we can't do it.
I'll add on to what you said, cuz I agree. It does come down to a basic lack of imagination.
When everyone is constrained by the thought's of a shorter life, uncomfortable, there is no profit, it seems to me like we will hardly do anything. It still boils down to the "save the children" argument, or "we must keep the heart moving as long as its physically possible for a machine to do", or pick one of those.
When it comes to exploration, its going to take us a while as humans to move on. Until we ship a propagating human population into the stars, we won't know. While we will run into all sorts of things that would make it difficult to come back to earth, and star children who can't step onto earth for a multitude of reasons, I for one don't see these as reasons we shouldn't go and do this.
If folks are sitting around saying that we should be living as long as we can on earth, we are already changing this environment.
Once people start going out into space, as long as we can live 20 or so years, that means we can reproduce enough generations to go forever. DNA will change, we'll adapt, and we'll figure it out. Sure, life spans will be different, but a short life span doesn't mean it is not an important life. For those that are religious, its not about longevity of life, its about a good life, yes? For those that believe in reincarnation, aren't they still alive through their families on ships traveling through space? For those that don't care about the end, then isn't it exploration for exploration sake? If it's about health, then these people shouldn't leave their homes, should have treadmills sent to their homes, air purified, and bubbles put around their homes, which in the end, they'll still die, and probably be boring anyhow.
As for the economy and profit, its not about that. If you get people into space, an economy is created. People come first before an economy and amazingly people tend to forget that.
As for profit, there are many reasons to travel and expand. Take bacteria as an example. They expand into everything. What lives, lives, what dies dies, what adapts adapts. It seems straight-forward, but I think many people get lost in this simple truism. To expand as a population, we can't all live to die hooked up to a machine, on morphine in a nursing home.
Imagination can be stifled by many things. Fear of everything is our biggest problem. My feeling is that if people want to go, lets put them in rockets and let them tell us whats happening. The science can then be done on them to figure out how to extend their lives from that point.
-- "If one day, my words are against science, choose science." Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - Elon Musk
You are right...Except all of the anchor's they've now created...
Checking schedules for soccer/kids sports Facebook isn't my website? If only gmail would get rid of spam.... Where else would I store my pictures? This isn't the internet?...
I had never seen or heard that Putin ran Kapersky Labs. Turn this around and why would the Chinese use a U.S. companies anti-virus? After all, the U.S. wants a free Tibet.
And again, when it comes to my personal info, wouldn't it be better to have a foreign government see my dirty laundry than the one that could prosecute me? (For the lawyers.... this is all supposition)
Thank you for your interesting point of view though, which is why I asked the question. Why not?
I have yet to see a compelling argument as to why I wouldn't use their product as a regular citizen. They do nothing different than any other anti-virus product when it comes to handling files. The only thing different than most is that their home country is Russia. Its not like the U.S. government doesn't have the exact same powers to subpoena a U.S. companies data, that the Russian government doesn't have to do to their own companies.
Now that everyone on the streets seems to be an UBER driver, it takes forever to get anywhere in SF. With one person to a car, driving around aimlessly half of the time waiting for the fair that takes them home, the roads are completely packed.
Robots are sure to fix this when everyone buys a personal robot for driving and picking up food. Who needs to leave their house?
Slashdot Mirror
Well, of course it is. As everybody knows, the 7.5 billion on the planet aren't the right ones.
--
And then there were two
If you listened to these artists while you did anything, their reasoning is that you not only owe them for the music, but you also owe them for what you did while listening to them. They set your brain waves straight!
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Born on the run
I'll help you in the SO and Kids department.
Kids are great as you get to live life through them. Its a happy, joyful existence. It isn't pockmarked by any of the worrying that I hear those without kids think it would be.
Having a significant other is a blessing. It is good to share life with someone. It also brings more meaning to everything in life.
--
"Thanks Jan" - Peter
We ask our friends and neighbors to help watch over town. As a society, we let the people arm themselves as a militia to fight the man "to not take away our freedom's", because "guns are the reason we have freedom", and all the other silly things that are said. We then ask the police to show up with kid gloves on, like somehow they have multiple lives.
If we aren't planning on violently overthrowing the government, then we should store our people killing guns at a safe community place where we all have the combination. In most countries, these places are called things like, The National Guard, or the Army. We could rename it so as to cater to those that don't like ideas that work globally to "American Armed Citizen Gun Storage for Freedom."
If we really do think that we need a violent revolution, then lets get it over with. Those that are in need, let your needs be known now, because this middle ground is killing a whole lot of innocents.
I've never seen anyone need a 15 round clip while hunting an Elk, Deer, Bear's or anything else in North America. I've never seen anyone use a hand-gun when hunting, but maybe pythons?
Our laws are so harsh in this country as it is, that everyone is an example when they get sentenced. Throwing someone in jail for 10 years or 20 years has zero rehabilitation difference if you're only considering them being a "better person" when they get out. I'd argue anything over 5 and you may as well throw away the key. Don't complain when you throw someone in jail, don't help them and then have to support them for the rest of their lives.
This kid and his friends need direct intervention. Anyone on that twitter account should receive a direct phone call from someone that sounds like authority and discuss with them why we don't do this to our fellow neighbors and friends online. That in itself would send a HUGE message...that we actually care about each other, that we treat each other appropriately and out of kindness, and that this is a large community of hundreds of millions, and that we are watching each others backs.
The kid himself needs to face some sort of sentence. He's young though, the news cycle is fast. Any "example" set by him will be quickly forgotten by the masses, only used by the court system to justify harsher sentences for everybody, people won't say "I won't do this cuz that guy got caught."
There is nothing more jolting to people that think they are getting away with things, than at least letting them know "we are paying attention to your vile behavior." Very few internet trolls would publicly do what they currently do. Outing people is a great way in terms of effectiveness and cost.
There are so many things that need to be fixed and addressed, and until they are, they're all hanging chad's in our society. Until we figure them out, these things are going to happen, people will say "more jail time", "more laws", but nothing changes when you don't change the way we deal with life.
--
Karma is a bitch
You're spot on. Their chess game has moved more in the last couple of years than in decades. The fact that so many Americans even put them on the same level is a huge step. People now thinking they are comparing yabloki to yabloki, is a huge win for the Kremlin.
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Apple's to Apple's, dust to dust.
I thought your comment was insightful and interesting, but funny didn't cross my mind.
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EOF
Hah! Touche!
I have never seen a "good" commercial for children.
These commercials create a sense of want where there should be none to start with. Kids aren't *insert new toy* deficient, as they think they are, after seeing a commercial for what they don't have. All this does is create tension where there should be none to start with.
--
My little pony and me -- Little girl from My Little Pony commercial
They are shining a bright light on the world they live in and operate in right now. If they put those words in there, you have a large group of ideologues that will outright, not look at it, therefore not fund the CDC, as "those people" aren't "their people."
It is them yelling HELP! They are not allowed to tread into politics per their job titles. They are screaming that there is a large number of people that already can not hear these words for sake of them not being re-elected, or that they simply don't care that there is science, and other *things* outside of their religion (and I use the term very loosely here).
It should be a very stark warning to all of us, that this isn't just happening now, it has already happened. Their hands are being tied by entire groups that thinks science that accepts anything other than their own is bad science. They have a base that believes this as well, and will back them up.
These people don't look at a world of people that are different. They look at the world through a lens where only they are right, and everyone else is wrong. Anything not serving their own self interests is a waste of time and money, and a clear example of a bloated government.
--
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain
The news that kicked off these stories was a piece taken out of context. Purposefully or not, we'll never really know. They'll issue a retraction, half the people will hear that, then half of those will remember there was a retraction.
Without the drive for non-stop, headline news, this wouldn't have been news as it would have been vetted. The editors are clearly in a race for time, to all of our detriment.
This nonsense is terrible for everyone that prints it, ingests it and has to try to un-ingest it. Of course, until everyone puts down their devices, and we all stop, this will happen unless we deter it in a meaningful way. While profits outweigh penalties, the editor will err on the side of being the first to publish.
--
"I'm sure to have a brain" - Scarecrow
He doesn't believe in phone companies either.
--
Hey, you're that guy - TV Commercial
As much as Facebook is for forums and Google is for card catalogs, crypto-currency is to online money.
I think what most of us skeptics are overlooking is that as people move online, they are moving farther and farther from what we would call the "real world." There is absolutely a place for crytp-currencies. I always think -- but what if it all goes away due to a power outage. The problem with that thinking is that most of the planet doesn't think that way, virtual belongings are here to stay. Kitties, coins, UID's are examples.
Is this a bubble? Yes. Is there a base that does make sense? Yes. It may be $10k, it may be $50k. Is it another crypto-currency? I'd guess we will see multiple ones rise to the top as long sustaining currencies. We already do see upward pressure on hundreds of them.
This isn't going to go away. The question is what is the base price vs. what is the bubble price.
--
It's a bird, It's a plane!
I can't imagine why this is good for anything, or anyone, or who would want this. Didn't they just say they were going to try to not ruin the world any more than they have already contributed to doing so, with their "schtik" the other day?
Who wants ad's in their forums anyhow? They should talk to SourceForge.
--
And then there was one...
If we as a people decide that it is a good thing to regulate these businesses, then it should be so. If these companies do not want to be in this business, they can all go somewhere else... or so by their logic, they would tell the people.
The comment period was a joke, and the comments that were made were not taken seriously. The entire point of a government is for the people to come to some consensus, and when a leader of an agency blatantly doesn't care, the agency needs to have its feet held to the fire.
There is no doubt that the internet is now a utility that we all use and need. There is no doubt that the cost of getting into the game is so high that most people could never jump in. There has to be some protections.
--
I didn't do it. - B. Simpson
I hear ya.
Hah. And for that, who needs books or writing for that matter.
What did we get when we went to the moon? We obtained knowledge. The human spirit was invested in, and proven to be alive and well. It has driven NASA, SpaceX, Boeing, and the list goes on as far as companies. The insights into our own minds and bodies have driven entire other industries. What we 'got' is immeasurable, as we are still getting.
People live in boxes already, all day with fluorescent lights, or if they're lucky, a window office. They drive in a box on wheels to get home. They complain its too cold or hot, so they turn on a machine to change the condition of the air. It is not hard to believe that people would be just fine living in a box in space instead of one on earth.
For people that call themselves explorers, it's done "because it is there." For those that don't understand that, it is impossible to explain why one climbs to the top of mountains and the bottom of holes. It's like telling an explorer why they should need a lawyer and an accountant to navigate life.
Wealth is only measured in dollars by those that limit its definition to that.
--
I didn't do it. - B. Simpson
I can't agree with your premise, that profit is why we live or do anything.
Even a business that doesn't make any profit for itself, is still a good endeavor if people can feed themselves and be happy. When I say happy, I mean that they feel good about themselves and what they are doing, and enrich their souls.
Sometimes as a species we must give a little bit to grow, and that is called investing, whether it be time, or energy. Not every investment returns an immediate profit. Some may never return a profit measured in dollars, as people may fail, but trying is what counts. We will have the knowledge forever, and that is profit.
Many societies on the planet never cared one bit about profitability. As long as the generations were alive and surviving, that was all they needed.
While you are right if a measure of being happy is looking through the lens of how much I have in the bank, and making the end of year statements not have parenthesis around them, but that isn't living and that isn't what makes most people happy.
Everyone does have different needs, but when we put profitability above all else, we are missing the entire point. I wasn't put on this planet to make a profit, that is a social construct. And to answer the question... I have nothing wrong with companies and people making profits, its just not the end all be all. I also certainly am not railing against any of our constructs, but I don't want our constructs to box us in so that we never do anything as a species.
On a final note, people come first, economies come later. If you put people in space, they will develop an economy among themselves. At that point, we can judge that and figure out how to optimize that. Until then, we are fear mongering as we go over all the reasons we can't do it.
--
"Throw all of the tea over!" -- Samuel Adams
I'll add on to what you said, cuz I agree. It does come down to a basic lack of imagination.
When everyone is constrained by the thought's of a shorter life, uncomfortable, there is no profit, it seems to me like we will hardly do anything. It still boils down to the "save the children" argument, or "we must keep the heart moving as long as its physically possible for a machine to do", or pick one of those.
When it comes to exploration, its going to take us a while as humans to move on. Until we ship a propagating human population into the stars, we won't know. While we will run into all sorts of things that would make it difficult to come back to earth, and star children who can't step onto earth for a multitude of reasons, I for one don't see these as reasons we shouldn't go and do this.
If folks are sitting around saying that we should be living as long as we can on earth, we are already changing this environment.
Once people start going out into space, as long as we can live 20 or so years, that means we can reproduce enough generations to go forever. DNA will change, we'll adapt, and we'll figure it out. Sure, life spans will be different, but a short life span doesn't mean it is not an important life. For those that are religious, its not about longevity of life, its about a good life, yes? For those that believe in reincarnation, aren't they still alive through their families on ships traveling through space? For those that don't care about the end, then isn't it exploration for exploration sake? If it's about health, then these people shouldn't leave their homes, should have treadmills sent to their homes, air purified, and bubbles put around their homes, which in the end, they'll still die, and probably be boring anyhow.
As for the economy and profit, its not about that. If you get people into space, an economy is created. People come first before an economy and amazingly people tend to forget that.
As for profit, there are many reasons to travel and expand. Take bacteria as an example. They expand into everything. What lives, lives, what dies dies, what adapts adapts. It seems straight-forward, but I think many people get lost in this simple truism. To expand as a population, we can't all live to die hooked up to a machine, on morphine in a nursing home.
Imagination can be stifled by many things. Fear of everything is our biggest problem. My feeling is that if people want to go, lets put them in rockets and let them tell us whats happening. The science can then be done on them to figure out how to extend their lives from that point.
--
"If one day, my words are against science, choose science." Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - Elon Musk
You are right...Except all of the anchor's they've now created...
Checking schedules for soccer/kids sports ...
Facebook isn't my website?
If only gmail would get rid of spam....
Where else would I store my pictures?
This isn't the internet?
--
These are the day's of my life
I had never seen or heard that Putin ran Kapersky Labs. Turn this around and why would the Chinese use a U.S. companies anti-virus? After all, the U.S. wants a free Tibet.
And again, when it comes to my personal info, wouldn't it be better to have a foreign government see my dirty laundry than the one that could prosecute me? (For the lawyers.... this is all supposition)
Thank you for your interesting point of view though, which is why I asked the question. Why not?
--
"I didn't do it" - B. Simpson
I have yet to see a compelling argument as to why I wouldn't use their product as a regular citizen. They do nothing different than any other anti-virus product when it comes to handling files. The only thing different than most is that their home country is Russia. Its not like the U.S. government doesn't have the exact same powers to subpoena a U.S. companies data, that the Russian government doesn't have to do to their own companies.
--
"I didn't do it" - B. Simpson
Now that everyone on the streets seems to be an UBER driver, it takes forever to get anywhere in SF. With one person to a car, driving around aimlessly half of the time waiting for the fair that takes them home, the roads are completely packed.
Robots are sure to fix this when everyone buys a personal robot for driving and picking up food. Who needs to leave their house?
--
"Purple Rain, Purple Rain" - Prince
^^ Site is not secured right, and is a sales portal to their identity tracking crap. Beware.
Places like coinbase.comallow you to do just this.