A group of Bush administration experts have been given limited press exposure on their theory that somehow "confusing" privacy laws contributed to the Virgina Tech shootings. They claim vaguely that "confusion" over student privacy and medical privacy laws were to blame for "limiting" the ability of officials to prevent the kind of violence that occured at Virginia Tech.
Most of Earth is literally uninhabitated, just think of Sibiria and Kamchatka and most of the US West really. Most likely their planet would be like that too so we'd find a place, most likely not a choice location but at least a place to stay. They of course would probably be less than thrilled having us (except of course for their version of the ufo freak), but we could play nice and even work on finding a place of our own and them moving out once we found it.
You forget that any business will pursue maximum profits meaning the product price is the maximum of a function of how many customers will pay how much for the product. The cost of lawsuits only subtracts from the profit but not from the price. Therefore lawsuits cost in terms of yachts and quality time spent with whores, but they don't affect prices. Who in his right mind would charge less _unless_ charging less actually increases profits?
Lawsuits are a good thing and we need more of corporate America in court than courting whores.
Buddy, every buck the company saves pays a yacht tied to the piers of Monaco or the French Riviera, but the product doesn't get any cheaper. Re your moniker: I agree.
... able to sequester our 'best minds' from our most 'enlightened institutions': Harvard, Yale, Columbia....
I like the way you applied the quotation marks. If anything these institutions are most illuminated and the square luminaries they churn out are not the cream of humanity... but... also float on top.
I like to believe that people like them are mostly pedophiles and hate America.
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You can of course build an electric chair in your garage, I think this is exactly what Fred Leuchter did when he refurbished the Tennessee electric chair, but... you can't lure the occasional bum into your garage and try it out on him.
Same thing with DRM. If you want to waste your time on yet another DRM scheme you can do that. You could possibly even sell your contraption to someone else who shares your taste for nuisance software, but don't hold your breath for it to be forced on people.
So there you go, you still have your free will and you can experiment in your garage all you want and thanks to the GPLV3 people don't have go out of my way to make sure you don't become a nuisance.
Yes of course. And philosophy itself is if I translate that greek loosely: love of knowledge, or rather the love of knowing or even better: love to know. As with everything under the sun, everything is open to abuse to those with an agenda. What love is there at the bottom of the socio-engineering heart?
I don't know about you but I strongly detest the concept of re-ligion itself. Just take the word: religion, re-ligare, ligare (lat) to bind to tie, in other words religion as in to tie to bind again. Science is yet another religion to keep the mind bound.
Where do you think the bandwidth for this crap is going to come from... you've guessed it. It'll be your P2P bandwidth. Providing you with an hour of television cost them next to nothing or they even charge the content provider for it. Providing you with that gigabyte of traffic you burned up in that same time cost them peering charges.
What's more if you give them the ability to undercut cable and satellite by putting "major" commercial broadcasters on their wires you're making it easier for those to squeeze the internet stations we're all listen off the wire. The big guys can easily afford the royalty payments and can buy away your favorite radio stations bandwidth.
Yes, Slashdot-Kameraden, you can get the same kind of service from Deutsche Telekom where they call it T-Home.
T-Home Classic (USD 68.26/m): Access to PPV movies, 6Mbit downstream DSL connection, internet flat rate, access to overpriced internet phone srevice, outrageous phone plan. T-Home Basic (USD 93.04/m): Access to PPV movies, Basic channels most you can get over the air anyways, internet flat rate, access to overpriced internet phone service, outrageous phone plan. cellular. T-Home Complete Plus (USD 112.98/m): Access to PPV movies, Basic channels, a set of Premium channels, internet flat rate, access to overpriced internet phone service, outrageous phone plan.
Oh and the "receiver" you have to use isn't free either, that's another USD 132.98
JNode (Java New Operating System Design Effort) is an operating system coded in 99% Java and for the bare metal stuff 1% of it is assembler. It's VM and the jit too are coded in java.
So yes 95% of JNode is portable but of course if you want to get it to run on another platform you would at a minimum have to look at the low level assembly stuff and of course the jit compiler.
And I don't even work at NASA but you're right. Still, 1196 sqft per person(!) is a hell of a lot when you remember that most people are forced to live on far less space, some even in their cars. And so all of humanity would still fit quiet nicely into an area less than half a percent of the land area of the planet.
We could of course put a suicide booth on the anonymous coward's 1196 sqft lot so he has an easy way out if he can't cope.
Texas alone has 262,000 sq miles, with 5,280 ft per mile that's 5,280 x 262,000 x 5,280 x 262,000 sq ft or 1,913,684,889,600,000,000 sq ft. Now if we moved the entire 6 billion of the world population into the State of Texas everybody would have 1,913,684,889,600,000,000 / 6,000,000,000 = 318,947,481 sq ft to live in.
Imagine that: Three-hundred-eighteen-million, nine-hundred-fourty-seven-thousand, four-hundred-eighty-one (!!!) square feet for everybody on this planet to live on.
Texas is among other things a great state to live in, but compared to the total land area of Earth of 148,939,100 sq km the 678,051 sq km of Texas only account for.45%(!!!) of it.
-> You could squeeze the entire population of the world into an area half a percent of the entire planet's surface area and with some 319 million sq ft of space allotted to each woman, man and child they wouldn't exactly be breathing down each other's neck, now would they?
Overpopulation is yet another myth. Of course people need roads, factories and agriculture and when they've got that they'll want pools, satellite communications and lamb chops from New Zealand... but still the myth figures do not add up, neither those of the overpopulation crowd nor those of the global warming faction.
People are catching on to these lies pretty fast now so I'm pretty confident there wont be any suicide booths or other overt population control scenarios, except maybe for "volunteers" like you who put "freedom" into quotation marks. Human beings are precious no matter whether there are only a handful or six or six-hundred billion, if you took the time for some introspection you'd know why.
* Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
[forced abortion and sterilization of reproduction offenders]
* Guide reproduction wisely--improving fitness and diversity.
[selection of the fittest, neutering/castration of the less desirable]
* Unite humanity with a living new language.
[
* Rule passion--faith--tradition--and all things with tempered reason.
[it's okay no matter how cruel and inhumane]
* Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
[and install a world court over those who might otherwise be free]
* Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
[and a world army that will put down dissent fast]
* Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
[don't elevate excessive amounts of serfs to capo status]
* Balance personal rights with social duties.
[you bet!]
* Prize truth--beauty--love--seeking harmony with the infinite.
[Right. Your infinite or mine?]
* Be not a cancer on the earth--Leave room for nature--Leave room for nature.
[Humans are cancer and you are the cure. Right]
In reality as far as entertainment goes, they can easily afford to lose dollars but not mind share. Entertainment is mainly a social engineering tool and they like to keep it honed.
They've been picking up human tv programming starting with the Berlin Olympics since 1953. However when the programming about a human social unit called "The Brady Bunch" arrived on their world they decided to evacuate the surface and build heavily fortified underground cities.
Says LehiNephi - Galactic Slashdot Explorer #695428 returning from a 33 year mission to explore the nearer parts of the Orion arm of the Milky Way. You were out there. You saw it with your own eyes. Now you've come back to awe a planet.
Don't buy anything with DRM on it. Let their accountants do your talking. Don't hack anything with DRM on it. Don't help other people watch their crap for free. Don't watch anything with DRM on it. Make them afraid of losing mind share.
but wait until people go to prison for the unauthorized creation of content, that is the illegal creation of _original_ content. That is not as far fetched as you might think considering there are many creative people out there who have the skills and the technology. They might not be able to create content as slick and polished as what Hollywood turns out, but they might have a more compelling story to tell. I think with anybody with a little imagination can come up with a better plot than what they have turned out as of late, such as the people captive in close proximity to dangerous creatures scenarios (snakes on a plane, Alien, Alien vs. Predator).
Your sig "What I tell you 10,000 times is true." says it all.
The intentional demolition of WTC7 was still a wild-ass conspiracy theory just a couple of weeks ago, the official story being that structural damage to WTC7 from the collapse of the towers led to the collapse of WTC7. I invite everyone to visit the sites I mentioned before and make up their own minds. As far as you are concerned Evil Crumb I have had page spanning discussions with people like you before and they're not worth the effort. So this is my last post in this thread. You can engage me in another thread but try to make it a little more interesting and worthwhile next time.
You're forgetting that Microsoft offered exchanging game play experience for the opportunity to monitor how the game performs. Thousands of people had accepted the offer and were fully prepared to start testing the game, yet Microsoft did not supply the game in a timely manner.
Never mind the legal angle which may be there or not, four days of extended play time are in my eyes not enough to make up for the disappointment and anguish caused to the community.
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A group of Bush administration experts have been given limited press exposure on their
theory that somehow "confusing" privacy laws contributed to the Virgina Tech shootings. They claim vaguely that "confusion" over student privacy and medical privacy laws were to blame for "limiting" the ability of officials to prevent the kind of violence that occured at Virginia Tech.
Most of Earth is literally uninhabitated, just think of Sibiria and Kamchatka and most
of the US West really. Most likely their planet would be like that too so we'd find a place, most likely not a choice location but at least a place to stay. They of course would probably be less than thrilled having us (except of course for their version of the ufo freak), but we could play nice and even work on finding a place of our own and them moving out once we found it.
We can see them, they can't see us? Duh? We cloaked our entire solar system?
You forget that any business will pursue maximum profits meaning the product price is the maximum
of a function of how many customers will pay how much for the product. The cost of lawsuits only
subtracts from the profit but not from the price. Therefore lawsuits cost in terms of yachts and
quality time spent with whores, but they don't affect prices. Who in his right mind would charge
less _unless_ charging less actually increases profits?
Lawsuits are a good thing and we need more of corporate America in court than courting whores.
Buddy, every buck the company saves pays a yacht tied to the piers of Monaco or the French Riviera, but
the product doesn't get any cheaper. Re your moniker: I agree.
... able to sequester our 'best minds' from our most 'enlightened institutions': Harvard, Yale, Columbia. ...
... but... also float on top.
I like the way you applied the quotation marks. If anything these institutions are most illuminated and the
square luminaries they churn out are not the cream of humanity
I like to believe that people like them are mostly pedophiles and hate America.
You can of course build an electric chair in your garage, I think this is exactly
what Fred Leuchter did when he refurbished the Tennessee electric chair, but...
you can't lure the occasional bum into your garage and try it out on him.
Same thing with DRM. If you want to waste your time on yet another DRM scheme
you can do that. You could possibly even sell your contraption to someone else who
shares your taste for nuisance software, but don't hold your breath for it to be forced
on people.
So there you go, you still have your free will and you can experiment in your
garage all you want and thanks to the GPLV3 people don't have go out of my way to make
sure you don't become a nuisance.
Yes of course. And philosophy itself is if I translate that greek loosely: love of knowledge, or rather the love of knowing or even better: love to know. As with everything under the sun, everything is open to abuse to those with an agenda. What love is there at the bottom of the socio-engineering heart?
I don't know about you but I strongly detest the concept of re-ligion itself. Just take the word: religion, re-ligare, ligare (lat) to bind to tie, in other words religion as in to tie to bind again. Science is yet another religion to keep the mind bound.
I don't know about you but when I'm holding a machine gun I have
trouble reaching for my wallet.
Where do you think the bandwidth for this crap is going to come from... you've
guessed it. It'll be your P2P bandwidth. Providing you with an hour of television
cost them next to nothing or they even charge the content provider for it. Providing
you with that gigabyte of traffic you burned up in that same time cost them peering
charges.
What's more if you give them the ability to undercut cable and satellite by putting
"major" commercial broadcasters on their wires you're making it easier for those
to squeeze the internet stations we're all listen off the wire. The big guys can
easily afford the royalty payments and can buy away your favorite radio stations
bandwidth.
Yes, Slashdot-Kameraden, you can get the same kind of service from Deutsche Telekom
where they call it T-Home.
T-Home Classic (USD 68.26/m): Access to PPV movies, 6Mbit downstream DSL connection,
internet flat rate, access to overpriced internet phone srevice, outrageous phone plan.
T-Home Basic (USD 93.04/m): Access to PPV movies, Basic channels most you can get
over the air anyways, internet flat rate, access to overpriced internet phone service,
outrageous phone plan.
cellular.
T-Home Complete Plus (USD 112.98/m): Access to PPV movies, Basic channels, a set of
Premium channels, internet flat rate, access to overpriced internet phone service,
outrageous phone plan.
Oh and the "receiver" you have to use isn't free either, that's another USD 132.98
Telekom Heil!
JNode (Java New Operating System Design Effort) is an operating system
coded in 99% Java and for the bare metal stuff 1% of it is assembler.
It's VM and the jit too are coded in java.
So yes 95% of JNode is portable but of course if you want to get it to
run on another platform you would at a minimum have to look at the
low level assembly stuff and of course the jit compiler.
Check it out at http://www.jnode.org/
And I don't even work at NASA but you're right. Still, 1196 sqft per person(!) is a hell of a lot when you remember that most people are forced to live on far less space, some even in their cars. And so all of humanity would still fit quiet nicely into an area less than half a percent of the land area of the planet.
We could of course put a suicide booth on the anonymous coward's 1196 sqft lot so he has an easy way out if he can't cope.
Texas alone has 262,000 sq miles, with 5,280 ft per mile that's 5,280 x 262,000 x 5,280 x 262,000 sq ft or 1,913,684,889,600,000,000 sq ft. Now if we moved the
.45%(!!!) of it.
t _global_warming_swindle/index.html
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entire 6 billion of the world population into the State of Texas everybody would have 1,913,684,889,600,000,000 / 6,000,000,000 = 318,947,481 sq ft to live in.
Imagine that: Three-hundred-eighteen-million, nine-hundred-fourty-seven-thousand, four-hundred-eighty-one (!!!) square feet for everybody on this planet to live on.
Texas is among other things a great state to live in, but compared to the total land area of Earth of 148,939,100 sq km the 678,051 sq km of Texas only account for
-> You could squeeze the entire population of the world into an area half a percent of the entire planet's surface area and with some 319 million sq ft of space allotted to each woman, man and child they wouldn't exactly be breathing down each other's neck, now would they?
Overpopulation is yet another myth. Of course people need roads, factories and agriculture and when they've got that they'll want pools, satellite communications and lamb chops from New Zealand... but still the myth figures do not add up, neither those of the overpopulation crowd nor those of the global warming faction.
In case you haven't seen it btw, do watch Matt Durkin's documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle" http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/G/grea
You can also watch it online at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=449956202
People are catching on to these lies pretty fast now so I'm pretty confident there
wont be any suicide booths or other overt population control scenarios, except
maybe for "volunteers" like you who put "freedom" into quotation marks. Human
beings are precious no matter whether there are only a handful or six or
six-hundred billion, if you took the time for some introspection you'd know why.
and after they're all concentrated in the cities..
Remember what is says on the Georgia Guidestones:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
* Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
[forced abortion and sterilization of reproduction offenders]
* Guide reproduction wisely--improving fitness and diversity.
[selection of the fittest, neutering/castration of the less desirable]
* Unite humanity with a living new language.
[
* Rule passion--faith--tradition--and all things with tempered reason.
[it's okay no matter how cruel and inhumane]
* Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
[and install a world court over those who might otherwise be free]
* Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
[and a world army that will put down dissent fast]
* Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
[don't elevate excessive amounts of serfs to capo status]
* Balance personal rights with social duties.
[you bet!]
* Prize truth--beauty--love--seeking harmony with the infinite.
[Right. Your infinite or mine?]
* Be not a cancer on the earth--Leave room for nature--Leave room for nature.
[Humans are cancer and you are the cure. Right]
http://www.roche.com/home.html
http://www.roche.ch/
http://www.roche.de/
They're the same people who manufacture Donald Rumsfeld's
"cure" for super-flu-ous people aka as "Tamiflu".
In reality as far as entertainment goes, they can easily afford to lose dollars
but not mind share. Entertainment is mainly a social engineering tool and they
like to keep it honed.
They've been picking up human tv programming starting with the Berlin Olympics
since 1953. However when the programming about a human social unit called
"The Brady Bunch" arrived on their world they decided to evacuate the surface
and build heavily fortified underground cities.
Says LehiNephi - Galactic Slashdot Explorer #695428 returning from a 33 year
mission to explore the nearer parts of the Orion arm of the Milky Way.
You were out there. You saw it with your own eyes. Now you've come back to
awe a planet.
Don't buy anything with DRM on it. Let their accountants do your talking.
Don't hack anything with DRM on it. Don't help other people watch their crap for free.
Don't watch anything with DRM on it. Make them afraid of losing mind share.
Instead: Watch DRM wither and die.
but wait until people go to prison for the unauthorized
creation of content, that is the illegal creation of _original_
content. That is not as far fetched as you might think
considering there are many creative people out there
who have the skills and the technology. They might not
be able to create content as slick and polished as what
Hollywood turns out, but they might have a more compelling
story to tell. I think with anybody with a little imagination
can come up with a better plot than what they have turned out
as of late, such as the people captive in close proximity to
dangerous creatures scenarios (snakes on a plane, Alien,
Alien vs. Predator).
Your sig "What I tell you 10,000 times is true." says it all.
The intentional demolition of WTC7 was still a wild-ass conspiracy theory just a couple of weeks
ago, the official story being that structural damage to WTC7 from the collapse of the towers
led to the collapse of WTC7. I invite everyone to visit the sites I mentioned before and make
up their own minds. As far as you are concerned Evil Crumb I have had page spanning discussions
with people like you before and they're not worth the effort. So this is my last post in this thread.
You can engage me in another thread but try to make it a little more interesting and worthwhile
next time.
You're forgetting that Microsoft offered exchanging game play experience for
the opportunity to monitor how the game performs. Thousands of people
had accepted the offer and were fully prepared to start testing the game, yet Microsoft did not supply the game in a timely manner.
Never mind the legal angle which may be there or not, four days of extended
play time are in my eyes not enough to make up for the disappointment and
anguish caused to the community.