Sure, we can discuss the other side. Let's discuss how breaking into a record store and ACTUALLY stealing the music is a lesser crime. Let's discuss how violent crimes - including manslaughter - get lesser sentences. Let's discuss hawguy's post [1], observing that
A 10 year prison sentence is a $500K tax on society for the cost of incarceration then hundreds of thousands of dollars more in public assistance after the infringer gets out of jail and can't find a job to support himself.
We'd be better off forcing the public to write nimbius a fucking check for his Royce.
Let's get more meta. Let's discuss the impossible logistics of enforcing control over an intangible, nonconscious concept, anywhere in the universe forever. I'm all for (superfluously) incentivizing human thought, but the current system is laughably futile. Solutions have no choice but to fall on the other side of the "Data is a contagion." reality. The very certain, immutable reality.
Sister post has a point, in that we ultimately control the browser device.
Counterpoint: Major OSs, browsers, and websites will become increasingly obnoxious in the same arena. This being motivated by the flood of normals.
CCP: The anonymous masses will develop counter-countermeasures, more out of normals' reach. Likely endgame is two-way whackamole, an arms race that results in a katamari of standards and tools, and a spectrum of control. Corporate can't completely win, but normals can't keep up.
Reminds me that copyright law is the grownup, federal version of "I saw it first!"
Reminds me that copyright law is basically "Dibs".
I'm all for incentivizing innovation*, but the current system is hilariously incompatible with today's increased... infectivity. Anyone proposing it would get weird looks, then pauses and "What? How's that going to work? Data is a contagion, not a conscious entity we can order around."
*Faster innovation. Innovation couldn't actually stop because, hey, data is contagious.
>and that freely-usable, indexed video hosting is part of the reason hackers can profit from it.
Yeah, no, that's a thing we want to keep. Find a less nuclear, less lazy solution, or accept it as one of the inconvenient-yet-inescapable truths: Distribution exists.
I sympathize when legislation wants to (try and) steer a technology, but sometimes it's like they think they can uninvent it. And you could argue that stopped being a thing sometime around, what, the invention of books?
I'm a light user, not a chatty person, so BYOD ala carte was for me. I use ptel, but there's probably lots of choices of groups who lease towers. No activity fee, but ala carte accounts will eventually go inactive, refreshed when balance is loaded. Minimum is $10, triggering 2mo of account uptime. So, $5/mo minimum. My auto reload trips about once a month.
Maybe there's better out there, but what do I care? I'm getting voice+mms+data for ~$10/mo, I'll settle. I optimistically assume their $.10/mb is competitive, since I barely use it.
>Are you one of those people that think child porn is good because it prevents potential child molesters from molesting children?
I think there's already enough data out there to show trends between outlets and decreased sexual crime. But I'm actually just here to laugh at how quickly Lovejoy's Law kicked in.
Not exactly, within the spectrum are people who will sincerely type "free mp3 downloads" into google and click things. Torrenting is only a few ticks up, all it really takes is overhearing the word and they're running around with the most ad-laden phone-home clients google has to offer.
They are advancing from the larval stage, and those who survive the burning forge of the chrysalis will emerge with better defensive wisdom, like you mention.
The rest will make phone calls to the "knows computers" family member, once the OS is ad-riddled past functionality.
Paper walls are nice. Collective progress requires coordination, morals, guidance. Everyman's outward efforts should be directed towards these, only these will affect the meta.
Everyman's inward efforts should put up real walls that actually keep shit out and fuck with the rest. Shutter your windows and poison their wells. At this stage the SJWs are invited to call me victim-blamer, while the remainder appreciates wisdom for actual results.
"Joke"? I don't see any kind of in-line conflict, anything to misconstrue, any lingual curveball or disruption, anything contradictory (seemingly or actually), or even a pun. I'm not talking about "taste", I'll allow a shitty level of wit, I mean either you pony up some kind of mechanic that's at least ARGUABLY capricious or that word does not fucking apply and the person at each step of the echo chamber tracing back to Original Claim is an idiot.
With these headlines I normally drop something clever about imaginary property, but I'm still bent out of shape over having to blast that "joke" business back into line.
Threatening a person is illegal because you threatened a person*, not because of the particular event wherein you had a gun in your hand or even that its sights passed over their person. Threatening a person and using a violent device to support the threat is more illegal, whether it's a sharp spoon or a satellite laser you own (and involve in the coercion).
* this seems redundant but it's being specific - yelling "FIRE" in a theater doesn't even involve the first amendment, it's illegal because it endangers human life, there is the legal restriction.
It might seem tediously technical but it's important so we can avoid the very ambiguities you're worried about. And if we make weaponized drones illegal, I hope we do so with precise law, not arbitrary interpretable bullshit. We fucked up hard on lots of computer law, we should bitch about new law for everyone's sake. Sometimes I get heat when I do, especially around hot items like proposed laws re: swatting, free speech, harassment, when I actually welcome new law - that's clearly marked and not decided by the judge's mood that day.
My understanding is that exceeding 1.0G requires adding downward net force by windfoil and surface grip. Apparently formula racers spin their wheels before starting guns, just to heat the rubber sticky. Apparently the main ramification of a small bump or aerodynamic failure is usually catastrophic: Your racer shooting up into the air and flipping vertically like someone put a bomb under your front lip.
Well, I got that last one from internet GIFs. Shit be nuts, yo.
"I'm gonna stick my dinger in it!" is one of the more volatile forces in the universe, even in the absence of sexual drive. Please designate applicable sarcasm, because if you don't we WILL try it, warning labels be damned.
I guess I made some crazy assumptions thinking that people would want things like education, career, reliable finances; and of that pool, that there would be a subset that's careful.
I won't force anyone, but let's/generously/ assume that people are still after those things, let's assume people are still averse to being poor and homeless because they're still made of flesh. They're also still waiting to hear what these "abundant, human-performed jobs" are, exactly.
Or are you implying it's going to take a lot less than 335y to hit? I already knew that, I just didn't want the imminence to distract from solutions.
Slashdot Mirror
The bacteria in your body right now outnumber your cells. By ten to one. Munroe was blasting the boast.
I'm tired of you phobics. You always sound so entitled. You clearly consider yourselves above others.
As you read this you are swallowing an endless stream of slimy mucus, and there's nothing you can do about it.
Fortunately, there's nothing you should do about it, and you'll be comfortable with reality after you prioritize where fucks need to be given.
A 10 year prison sentence is a $500K tax on society for the cost of incarceration then hundreds of thousands of dollars more in public assistance after the infringer gets out of jail and can't find a job to support himself.
We'd be better off forcing the public to write nimbius a fucking check for his Royce.
Let's get more meta. Let's discuss the impossible logistics of enforcing control over an intangible, nonconscious concept, anywhere in the universe forever. I'm all for (superfluously) incentivizing human thought, but the current system is laughably futile. Solutions have no choice but to fall on the other side of the "Data is a contagion." reality. The very certain, immutable reality.
[1] http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
tiny space cows
That's kind of adorable.
Even the internet of things will be internet of things.
[_] No Retard
[_] Some Retard
[X] Full Retard
Sister post has a point, in that we ultimately control the browser device.
Counterpoint: Major OSs, browsers, and websites will become increasingly obnoxious in the same arena. This being motivated by the flood of normals.
CCP: The anonymous masses will develop counter-countermeasures, more out of normals' reach. Likely endgame is two-way whackamole, an arms race that results in a katamari of standards and tools, and a spectrum of control. Corporate can't completely win, but normals can't keep up.
Sort of how piracy already is.
It took the summary, your post, a TFA glance, and a bit of fridge-delay for me to remember that Real Steel was a movie. And I even watched it.
Yeah, it was pretty forgettable. Their mech-boxers were remote-operated though.
Reminds me that copyright law is the grownup, federal version of "I saw it first!"
Reminds me that copyright law is basically "Dibs".
I'm all for incentivizing innovation*, but the current system is hilariously incompatible with today's increased... infectivity. Anyone proposing it would get weird looks, then pauses and "What? How's that going to work? Data is a contagion, not a conscious entity we can order around."
*Faster innovation. Innovation couldn't actually stop because, hey, data is contagious.
>and that freely-usable, indexed video hosting is part of the reason hackers can profit from it.
Yeah, no, that's a thing we want to keep. Find a less nuclear, less lazy solution, or accept it as one of the inconvenient-yet-inescapable truths: Distribution exists.
I sympathize when legislation wants to (try and) steer a technology, but sometimes it's like they think they can uninvent it. And you could argue that stopped being a thing sometime around, what, the invention of books?
I'm a light user, not a chatty person, so BYOD ala carte was for me. I use ptel, but there's probably lots of choices of groups who lease towers. No activity fee, but ala carte accounts will eventually go inactive, refreshed when balance is loaded. Minimum is $10, triggering 2mo of account uptime. So, $5/mo minimum. My auto reload trips about once a month.
Maybe there's better out there, but what do I care? I'm getting voice+mms+data for ~$10/mo, I'll settle. I optimistically assume their $.10/mb is competitive, since I barely use it.
Postscript: A dice roll is like two lines of code, and far beneath the scope I meant to imply.
If your reading comprehension can't mature past literal face value, implied equivalents and other subtleties will elude you.
Not that I necessarily endorse GP's snark or not.
"LARPing? What's LARPing?" does sound like a death toll.
(Disclaimer: I'm not even very fond of d20, to say nothing of LARP. Mostly because I can't stop thinking "we could automate so much of this")
*pauses briefly*
...Shit, that kind of makes sense.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2733...
WELP.
>Are you one of those people that think child porn is good because it prevents potential child molesters from molesting children?
I think there's already enough data out there to show trends between outlets and decreased sexual crime. But I'm actually just here to laugh at how quickly Lovejoy's Law kicked in.
Not exactly, within the spectrum are people who will sincerely type "free mp3 downloads" into google and click things. Torrenting is only a few ticks up, all it really takes is overhearing the word and they're running around with the most ad-laden phone-home clients google has to offer.
They are advancing from the larval stage, and those who survive the burning forge of the chrysalis will emerge with better defensive wisdom, like you mention.
The rest will make phone calls to the "knows computers" family member, once the OS is ad-riddled past functionality.
Hi fuckwad,
Three felonies a day. Just ask the courts, or Your Betters.
Check and mate,
Cardinal Richelieu
Paper walls are nice. Collective progress requires coordination, morals, guidance. Everyman's outward efforts should be directed towards these, only these will affect the meta.
Everyman's inward efforts should put up real walls that actually keep shit out and fuck with the rest. Shutter your windows and poison their wells. At this stage the SJWs are invited to call me victim-blamer, while the remainder appreciates wisdom for actual results.
"Joke"? I don't see any kind of in-line conflict, anything to misconstrue, any lingual curveball or disruption, anything contradictory (seemingly or actually), or even a pun. I'm not talking about "taste", I'll allow a shitty level of wit, I mean either you pony up some kind of mechanic that's at least ARGUABLY capricious or that word does not fucking apply and the person at each step of the echo chamber tracing back to Original Claim is an idiot.
With these headlines I normally drop something clever about imaginary property, but I'm still bent out of shape over having to blast that "joke" business back into line.
Normally people drop "strawman." here, but I'm actually leaning towards "shoehorn".
Threatening a person is illegal because you threatened a person*, not because of the particular event wherein you had a gun in your hand or even that its sights passed over their person. Threatening a person and using a violent device to support the threat is more illegal, whether it's a sharp spoon or a satellite laser you own (and involve in the coercion).
* this seems redundant but it's being specific - yelling "FIRE" in a theater doesn't even involve the first amendment, it's illegal because it endangers human life, there is the legal restriction.
It might seem tediously technical but it's important so we can avoid the very ambiguities you're worried about. And if we make weaponized drones illegal, I hope we do so with precise law, not arbitrary interpretable bullshit. We fucked up hard on lots of computer law, we should bitch about new law for everyone's sake. Sometimes I get heat when I do, especially around hot items like proposed laws re: swatting, free speech, harassment, when I actually welcome new law - that's clearly marked and not decided by the judge's mood that day.
My understanding is that exceeding 1.0G requires adding downward net force by windfoil and surface grip. Apparently formula racers spin their wheels before starting guns, just to heat the rubber sticky. Apparently the main ramification of a small bump or aerodynamic failure is usually catastrophic: Your racer shooting up into the air and flipping vertically like someone put a bomb under your front lip.
Well, I got that last one from internet GIFs. Shit be nuts, yo.
You have to show the receipt, erotic asphyxiation is waived.
I totally spelled that correct by accident.
"I'm gonna stick my dinger in it!" is one of the more volatile forces in the universe, even in the absence of sexual drive. Please designate applicable sarcasm, because if you don't we WILL try it, warning labels be damned.
GParent: Yes it is.
Parent: No it isn't.
Reply: [pending]
Are you requesting what I think you're requesting?
I guess I made some crazy assumptions thinking that people would want things like education, career, reliable finances; and of that pool, that there would be a subset that's careful.
/generously/ assume that people are still after those things, let's assume people are still averse to being poor and homeless because they're still made of flesh. They're also still waiting to hear what these "abundant, human-performed jobs" are, exactly.
I won't force anyone, but let's
Or are you implying it's going to take a lot less than 335y to hit? I already knew that, I just didn't want the imminence to distract from solutions.