Probably because a lot more people have contact with cars than they do with scalpels to begin with. I think you'd have a better case against ever being born to begin with as that is the leading cause of death by natural causes.
I remember reading recently that law schools put out some 40,000 new lawyers per year, where there's only an economic demand of about 7,000 new ones per year.
I think what GP might be referring to is having a proxy configuration. If somebody wants their traffic to appear from an IP address in a specific geographic location, it isn't very hard. Most people who would be the types that are hacking a bank would probably already have a sizable botnet, and if they do, chances are they'll have one particular node residing either in or close enough to the desired subnet, and then they simply proxy through it.
Unlike youtube though, pirate sites are usually rather well curated to weed out fakes. Naturally, Sony's plan here never would have worked anyways. For TV shows, usually people are using an automated episode snatcher of some kind (my personal favorite is sickrage) and have it configured to only download from users flagged as VIP, trusted, etc. Not doing this very often yields fakes, passworded archives, etc.
Nobody who posted only fake material would get that kind of a reputation.
People who download manually tend to look into the comments (even briefly) to find out information about quality, subtitles, etc. If there are immediate and/or abundant posts with messages like "fake" then they'll just move on.
You still have yet to ask why is it the job of law enforcement to offer the opportunity to engage in terrorism?
Because it's also their responsibility to be proactive in addition to being reactive, much the same as any other sting operation. What you're suggesting is tantamount to saying that law enforcement should never be allowed to place bait cars to catch car thieves. Much the same with bait cars, they never told the thief to go attempt to steal it, rather they simply placed the car there, hence providing the opportunity.
The taxi drivers are arguing that if they can't be the ONLY ones to drive people to their destination, then NOBODY can. And then they wonder why fewer people want to patronize them.
Neither this article nor your comment have anything to do with capitalism. It's no wonder your post is scored -1 without any moderation at all. That and your ideology died in the late 80's.
Besides, in DEEP contrast to every communist's philosophy and predictions, every self-identified communist society that survives to this day has either partially or fully incorporated capitalist concepts into their economy. The ones that didn't saw a big drop in GDP followed by total collapse, and among those, the ones who survived the longest were the ones that closed their borders to prevent their citizens from escaping to a capitalist country, essentially resorting to slavery.
So in other words, REAL communism turns into slavery, and never a government free utopia.
For an early precursor of what was to come, read about the complete history of the Icarians in Nauvoo, IL (it was a short one, by the way, but matches what I described above.)
The defeat of Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy don't ring a bell? Ending the death camps and the Holocaust? Helping to rebuild Europe?
And, logically, establishing Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and Fascist Italy, creating the death camps, committing the holocaust and destroying Europe.
No, that would have been the generation before them. As one other person mentioned, they were born between 1901 and 1924. Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, were all born prior to that (Hirohito was born in 1901 so it's debatable that he'd be part of the same generation, but he also inherited his reign.) I don't know what their moniker is, but if I were to coin it myself, I'd say it was the absolutism generation. (It also may be that many of them had a strong influence from Bernard Forster's interpretation of Nietzche's work. Hitler seemed to share a lot of opinions with Forster for example.)
I know there were some people during those years who were otherwise somewhat sympathetic with e.g. Hitler (such as Henry Ford) but again, I think it's safe to say that most of them were from the generation prior.
Now I don't want to comment on whether or not 1901 to 1924 was truly the greatest generation, but your statement about their generation being responsible for the rise of fascism would be incorrect.
Not everywhere and for everyone. A while back a lot of people used AVI files for their just about all of their video needs, and it did the job fine as pretty much all modern codecs work with it.
But in the third world people like to pirate a lot more, and contrary to popular belief, pirate release groups (collectively referred to as "the scene") love quality, and are rather OCD about making sure their releases are not only high quality, but the best quality they can be. Crap releases like divx and burned subtitles are actually re-released by non-scene individuals who think video is only good if it works in their playstation, and the only way for that to happen is if you make a lot of sacrifices. (Such types of people recently threw a fit when the scene got together and decided to no longer release formats in XVID, and instead release them all in x264 going forward, to which the scene said they didn't give a shit and that quality comes first.)
The MKV format was by and large born out of this desire for high quality, good releases, as it has very robust codec support, subtitle support, menu support, and a ton of other features not found in *any* other container format. And, I'd say a good 99.9% of its use is done exclusively by pirates (one feature that is notably is missing is DRM support.) Yet now Microsoft, king of MPAA panderers, even supports the MKV format in its products going forward (including Xbone and Windows 10) because piracy is so rampant that there's a huge demand for that format, even in the first world.
Now, back to the topic at hand: The third world loves high quality formats, and are often bandwidth limited. What makes you think they wouldn't cast aside JPEG just like they've already cast aside AVI? They've made it pretty clear that they don't really give a shit if your old crap ass xbox or playstation doesn't work with it. They want quality, damnit!
I view piracy as a form of civil disobedience protesting inflated prices. If digital content were reduced to 25% I'm pretty sure sales would more than quadruple.
That would be under the (rather silly) assumption that all digital content has a 1:1 price elasticity. I can't even begin to describe how stupid somebody would have to be to make that assumption.
This what happens when you use the wrong personnel for the job. Army and Marines aren't effective Gendarme, we do not have a true Gendarme Corps.
When I was in the Army, I remember every MOS had a wartime duty. As far as I recall, the Army Band (literally, musicians as an MOS) had a wartime duty of exactly this. I haven't been in the army for about 13 years now, so I can't say if they still do it that way.
If we were just "logical beings", there would be no bestiality, since logically it serves no purpose.
There's also no logical purpose for homosexuality and transexuality, in fact presently nobody is able to adequately explain how either exist in light of natural selection. That isn't cause for condemnation though. There is, however, a logical, and indeed evolutionary purpose for pedophilia -- depending on the victim's age.
Anyways I'm not sure what you're getting at here.
You shouldn't make decisions based on logic alone.
Both the law and civilization are a "work in progress."
Progress to what end? Remember that Germany had democracy before Hitler rose to power, and secular societies have turned religious on well more than one occasion.
None of that, actually. It's mainly your writing style (e.g. shorter rather than longer sentences) in addition to a few of your mannerisms. I don't have a whole lot of time to go into detail.
At any rate I'm not endorsing bestiality, just that I haven't found a logical reason to condemn it. Otherwise you may as well say that just because I can't prove that Jesus didn't exist means I condone every bad thing Christians have done. Instead Christians don't bother me, and I don't bother them.
That's fine and all, but what are you supposed to do if nobody has an actual device of that platform? For example, since nobody owns a Windows Phone device, how are you supposed to develop for Windows Phone? These guys get angry when developers discriminate, angry enough that they write a strongly worded blog about them spiracies:
Also I can't help but observe that in my experience the way you pursue this is more consistent with the way men do than women do, which further reinforces an earlier point I made on various occasions.
Of course I'm going by the legal definition. It's the framework we as a civilization have built, and under which we live. It's the one that has real-life consequences.
Under that logic, the persecution of Alan Turing was perfectly justified. And in other words, you also feel that the persecution of Alan Turing was perfectly justified.
Until recently Christians didn't identify themselves as such. They identified themselves as Catholic, Protestant, Baptist, Lutheran, Calvinist, Episcopal, Armenian, etc.
It's probably safe to throw the tolerant label on a few of them.
Disclaimer: I don't identify to a religious belief and am probably best described as atheist.
You're going by the legal definition. Legally nobody under 18 can consent either, yet given the chance there are a lot of teachers I would have boned well before that age.
Tons of data you can view there. Pull up France's 25 - 54 employment, and the US's. My statement is true.
That's not a smart way to do it actually. It's very much possible (and indeed common) to be fully educated AND looking for a job below the age of 25. That's why the BLS only counts you as unemployed if you're LOOKING for a job. If you're a student at age 30 for example, your figures count you as unemployed. When I was in college, I knew a LOT of people older than 25 that didn't work.
The BLS unemployment rate is an accurate figure for that reason, not your 25-54 figure.
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Probably because a lot more people have contact with cars than they do with scalpels to begin with. I think you'd have a better case against ever being born to begin with as that is the leading cause of death by natural causes.
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I remember reading recently that law schools put out some 40,000 new lawyers per year, where there's only an economic demand of about 7,000 new ones per year.
I think what GP might be referring to is having a proxy configuration. If somebody wants their traffic to appear from an IP address in a specific geographic location, it isn't very hard. Most people who would be the types that are hacking a bank would probably already have a sizable botnet, and if they do, chances are they'll have one particular node residing either in or close enough to the desired subnet, and then they simply proxy through it.
Unlike youtube though, pirate sites are usually rather well curated to weed out fakes. Naturally, Sony's plan here never would have worked anyways. For TV shows, usually people are using an automated episode snatcher of some kind (my personal favorite is sickrage) and have it configured to only download from users flagged as VIP, trusted, etc. Not doing this very often yields fakes, passworded archives, etc.
Nobody who posted only fake material would get that kind of a reputation.
People who download manually tend to look into the comments (even briefly) to find out information about quality, subtitles, etc. If there are immediate and/or abundant posts with messages like "fake" then they'll just move on.
You still have yet to ask why is it the job of law enforcement to offer the opportunity to engage in terrorism?
Because it's also their responsibility to be proactive in addition to being reactive, much the same as any other sting operation. What you're suggesting is tantamount to saying that law enforcement should never be allowed to place bait cars to catch car thieves. Much the same with bait cars, they never told the thief to go attempt to steal it, rather they simply placed the car there, hence providing the opportunity.
A false flag would be something completely made up. In this case there was actual mal-intent but nothing of the criminal sort.
Yes, because driving a car should SOOOO require spending 8 years in training.
The taxi drivers are arguing that if they can't be the ONLY ones to drive people to their destination, then NOBODY can. And then they wonder why fewer people want to patronize them.
Neither this article nor your comment have anything to do with capitalism. It's no wonder your post is scored -1 without any moderation at all. That and your ideology died in the late 80's.
Besides, in DEEP contrast to every communist's philosophy and predictions, every self-identified communist society that survives to this day has either partially or fully incorporated capitalist concepts into their economy. The ones that didn't saw a big drop in GDP followed by total collapse, and among those, the ones who survived the longest were the ones that closed their borders to prevent their citizens from escaping to a capitalist country, essentially resorting to slavery.
So in other words, REAL communism turns into slavery, and never a government free utopia.
For an early precursor of what was to come, read about the complete history of the Icarians in Nauvoo, IL (it was a short one, by the way, but matches what I described above.)
The defeat of Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy don't ring a bell? Ending the death camps and the Holocaust? Helping to rebuild Europe?
And, logically, establishing Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and Fascist Italy, creating the death camps, committing the holocaust and destroying Europe.
No, that would have been the generation before them. As one other person mentioned, they were born between 1901 and 1924. Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, were all born prior to that (Hirohito was born in 1901 so it's debatable that he'd be part of the same generation, but he also inherited his reign.) I don't know what their moniker is, but if I were to coin it myself, I'd say it was the absolutism generation. (It also may be that many of them had a strong influence from Bernard Forster's interpretation of Nietzche's work. Hitler seemed to share a lot of opinions with Forster for example.)
I know there were some people during those years who were otherwise somewhat sympathetic with e.g. Hitler (such as Henry Ford) but again, I think it's safe to say that most of them were from the generation prior.
Now I don't want to comment on whether or not 1901 to 1924 was truly the greatest generation, but your statement about their generation being responsible for the rise of fascism would be incorrect.
I heard something to the effect of Apple not wanting to allow third party apps to use it...ever.
Not everywhere and for everyone. A while back a lot of people used AVI files for their just about all of their video needs, and it did the job fine as pretty much all modern codecs work with it.
But in the third world people like to pirate a lot more, and contrary to popular belief, pirate release groups (collectively referred to as "the scene") love quality, and are rather OCD about making sure their releases are not only high quality, but the best quality they can be. Crap releases like divx and burned subtitles are actually re-released by non-scene individuals who think video is only good if it works in their playstation, and the only way for that to happen is if you make a lot of sacrifices. (Such types of people recently threw a fit when the scene got together and decided to no longer release formats in XVID, and instead release them all in x264 going forward, to which the scene said they didn't give a shit and that quality comes first.)
The MKV format was by and large born out of this desire for high quality, good releases, as it has very robust codec support, subtitle support, menu support, and a ton of other features not found in *any* other container format. And, I'd say a good 99.9% of its use is done exclusively by pirates (one feature that is notably is missing is DRM support.) Yet now Microsoft, king of MPAA panderers, even supports the MKV format in its products going forward (including Xbone and Windows 10) because piracy is so rampant that there's a huge demand for that format, even in the first world.
Now, back to the topic at hand: The third world loves high quality formats, and are often bandwidth limited. What makes you think they wouldn't cast aside JPEG just like they've already cast aside AVI? They've made it pretty clear that they don't really give a shit if your old crap ass xbox or playstation doesn't work with it. They want quality, damnit!
Is it worth it though? I can't imagine *anything* that could make LA any worse of a place to live in than it already is.
Try btdigg.org
I view piracy as a form of civil disobedience protesting inflated prices. If digital content were reduced to 25% I'm pretty sure sales would more than quadruple.
That would be under the (rather silly) assumption that all digital content has a 1:1 price elasticity. I can't even begin to describe how stupid somebody would have to be to make that assumption.
This what happens when you use the wrong personnel for the job. Army and Marines aren't effective Gendarme, we do not have a true Gendarme Corps.
When I was in the Army, I remember every MOS had a wartime duty. As far as I recall, the Army Band (literally, musicians as an MOS) had a wartime duty of exactly this. I haven't been in the army for about 13 years now, so I can't say if they still do it that way.
If we were just "logical beings", there would be no bestiality, since logically it serves no purpose.
There's also no logical purpose for homosexuality and transexuality, in fact presently nobody is able to adequately explain how either exist in light of natural selection. That isn't cause for condemnation though. There is, however, a logical, and indeed evolutionary purpose for pedophilia -- depending on the victim's age.
Anyways I'm not sure what you're getting at here.
You shouldn't make decisions based on logic alone.
I do that because I believe it's fair and just.
Both the law and civilization are a "work in progress."
Progress to what end? Remember that Germany had democracy before Hitler rose to power, and secular societies have turned religious on well more than one occasion.
None of that, actually. It's mainly your writing style (e.g. shorter rather than longer sentences) in addition to a few of your mannerisms. I don't have a whole lot of time to go into detail.
At any rate I'm not endorsing bestiality, just that I haven't found a logical reason to condemn it. Otherwise you may as well say that just because I can't prove that Jesus didn't exist means I condone every bad thing Christians have done. Instead Christians don't bother me, and I don't bother them.
That's fine and all, but what are you supposed to do if nobody has an actual device of that platform? For example, since nobody owns a Windows Phone device, how are you supposed to develop for Windows Phone? These guys get angry when developers discriminate, angry enough that they write a strongly worded blog about them spiracies:
http://jltechword.wordpress.co...
Also I can't help but observe that in my experience the way you pursue this is more consistent with the way men do than women do, which further reinforces an earlier point I made on various occasions.
Of course I'm going by the legal definition. It's the framework we as a civilization have built, and under which we live. It's the one that has real-life consequences.
Under that logic, the persecution of Alan Turing was perfectly justified. And in other words, you also feel that the persecution of Alan Turing was perfectly justified.
Until recently Christians didn't identify themselves as such. They identified themselves as Catholic, Protestant, Baptist, Lutheran, Calvinist, Episcopal, Armenian, etc.
It's probably safe to throw the tolerant label on a few of them.
Disclaimer: I don't identify to a religious belief and am probably best described as atheist.
You're going by the legal definition. Legally nobody under 18 can consent either, yet given the chance there are a lot of teachers I would have boned well before that age.
I am getting my data from the Federal Reserve's domestic and foreign data: http://research.stlouisfed.org... [stlouisfed.org]
Tons of data you can view there. Pull up France's 25 - 54 employment, and the US's. My statement is true.
That's not a smart way to do it actually. It's very much possible (and indeed common) to be fully educated AND looking for a job below the age of 25. That's why the BLS only counts you as unemployed if you're LOOKING for a job. If you're a student at age 30 for example, your figures count you as unemployed. When I was in college, I knew a LOT of people older than 25 that didn't work.
The BLS unemployment rate is an accurate figure for that reason, not your 25-54 figure.