and people who put their allegiance in a Corporation rather than their State do not deserve Citizenship.
If you're NOT a New Yorker FIRST (ok, I'll grant being an American is ok, but just for this discussion...), but a Republican or Democrat or Green or whatever, GET YOUR DAMMED DIRTY HANDS OFF MY COUNTRY.
If they had copies of the stuff that's licensed so I can check it against my linux. She said that she didn't have it anything for me. Sounded really sad that she couldn't have helped.
But they're not "privately owned" if they're owned by a Public Company.
Yup... PUBLIC COMPANIES are given charters FIRST TO BENEFIT THE PUBLIC, and SECOND to secure a special legal status from the Gubmint (let 'em sell shares, special regulations apply to them, etc.)
By saying 'This is "Private" property, they're showing Bad Faith in dealing with the People, and violating their charter.
An honest Judge would dissolve the comany, and revoke the charter for the audacity.
New York State's got a bunch of "Civil Rights Laws" which guarantee equal access, too. You can trump a Tresspass violation with a few counts of that, and if you'd care to, there's a bunch NICE Federal codes that are VERY RESTRICTIVE... (Did someone tell you to do this? Yes? Good! That's a FEDERAL FELONY... 10 years, in a Federal Prision,
Read any of Jon Kabat-Zinn's books; Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness and Wherever You Go, There You Are.
"tracker decentralization is absolutely necessary if bittorrent is going to thirve in a competetive (legal) environment."
What do you mean by 'thrive'? Seems to me, bittorrent is working quite well. How do you grab.isos and fansubbed anime?
What 'products' does bittorrent compete against?
Gnutella? Kaaza? Furthernet?
Nope.
Those are filesharing network tools. They need cataloging, searching, and distributed control.
Bittorrent is not a fileshareing tool. It's a software/data distribution tool. Keep the design goals in mind, and the REASONS for the features will be obvious.
Now, what we've seen, is some folks creating 'filesharing applications' by writing web sites that catalog.torrents and trackers. They just use the bittorrent protocol as a data transport mechanism. The APPLICATION itself is a kludge. (It was a good kludge, to, as they go...) That's why it's broken. Build something better, more resistant to these failures/attacks at the APPLICATION level, but tinkering with the transport level is foolish...
or fix the damn country, and strip 'Personhood' from Corporations. Then there wouldn't be the exploitation of Congress' authority under Article I, section 8... But that's another rant...
and you go on to offer,
"1.) 2 really cheap servers can do the same job as 1 really really expensive server"
This appears to be a comment to the effect that bittorrent trackers require really really expensive servers to operate effieciently. I have no evidence to support that claim, but have seen a number of properly operating bittorrent trackers on quite modest hardware. Anyone with more experience in scaling trackers care to chime in?
and
"2.) redundancy is necessary to achieve stability."
Ok, again, all the evidence I've seen is negative. I've never known the fact that a tracker's a single-point-of-failure to be any more of an issue than, say, hosting content on a ftp server.
Maybe it's helpful to think of it as a really fast ftp server. If you know what you want, and the 'server' is up (which in this case is a combo of tracker/seeds/clients), then everything works great. If you don't know what you want, or the infrastructure doesn't cooperate, then, well, no one said life would be fair...
Did you sign you driver's license application, agreeing to abide by their rules? If so, then you need to play nice with the officer as he enforces the rules YOU AGREED TO!
Stop whining about how "they" have taken away your rights. You exchanged them for the license.
Arena IDE-RAID boxes... They don't always flag a drive bad, (and ask you to replace it), when drives start experienceing bad clusters. It'll *try* to remap them, but if it doesn't, if fails WITHOUT WARNING. (~500GB on 75GB DeathStars...) Think about it.
Really? When I READ the New York Vehicle and Traffic Code, it's quite clear that the point of licensing and registration is to provide for the timely resolution of insurance claims.
Don't make me dig up the cites for you... Do it yourself, and you'll learn it.
/.'ed... Link to google's cache....
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Of course it's slashdotted by now... Here's a copy out of
google's cache...
And so, you say an attorney/client relationship exists b/t the da and the District/Commenwealth. Should one just assume that realtionship exists, or if it's a VALID one, they would be able to prove it with evidence? Perhaps a contract which could be entered into evidence to support it? Wonder what would happen if the kid pursued the point with more finesse... Probably still get thrown in the cooler...
If you READ the New York Vehicle and Traffic Code, it's pretty clear the whole licensing and registration thing is provided for the swift resolution of Insurance Claims. Conning you into believing they are "The States" roads is just the way it's abused most often. If they ARE "The States" roads, I'd like to see them PROVE Title to them.
>"Dropping the war on drugs is only slightly less absurd than dropping laws against murder."
Any more absurd then, and pay attention here, DECLARING WAR AGAINST YOUR OWN CITIZENS? And isn't that EXACTLY what President and Commander-in-Chief Richard Milhous Nixon did?
It may be called "War on Drugs", but if the "War on Terror" is fought against Terrorists, isn't the "War on Drugs" fought against DRUGGISTS!
And now that we've gotten ourselves into a "REAL WAR" ( well, I suppose it's real...) , doesn't all that wasted time and money seem even more pointless, since the "War on D rugs" has caused more harm to America than anything else since the Civil War? Maybe even more than the civil war. And that had 22,000 Americans dead at a single battle. (I'm thinking Shiloh...)
And those "Druggists" ARE CITIZENS, your FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, and TAXPAYERS.
(until the Exec. Order which redefines that... and if you think it's too unlikely, answer this:
Can you lose you "Drivers Licence" (And in case you weren't watching, now it's your National ID card...) or "Student Loan" (Those are Federal College Education Benefits) for "Convictions" against "anti-drug laws"?)
What is the legal status of someone who declares a War on Citizens of the United States? If they've sworn an Oath to The Constitution, aren't they committing Treason? (How about Seditious Conspiracy?)
That is the foundation upon which this "War On Drugs" is built, and that is why it was a LOST CAUSE ever since it was declared. NOTHING HAS EVER CHANGED FOR ALL THE WASTED MONEY AND HUMAN POTENTIAL!
Oh....
You also really need to learn some more about how Laws work on paper. (The *reality* is that The Officers can kill you, and the Judge, Defense, and Prosecution will conspire to conduct the criminal prosecution of the Officers in such a way that the "Jury" has, due to the evidence (not) presented, and the "Instructions To The Jury" no choice but to acquit.
BUT on paper....
there must be clear, articuable facts that YOU "probably caused" the INJURY to the COMPLAINTENT.
There must be a) a COMPLAINTENT b) an INJURY and c) EVIDENCE indicting you for a LAWFUL ARREST. (Do you get the idea that most arrests today aren't LAWFUL. Did you even notice that?)
Now, prohibitive laws don't follow this recipe. When someone is arrested, the relevent questions are: WHO IS THE COMPLAINTENT, and WHAT IS THE INJURY. Without those 2 it's not even relevent asking: "What's the evidence?"
> Drugs destroy families, friendships, and lives; why should our government encourage their use"
Metaphorically, you mean. In reality, it's Drugs that ease the mortal pain of the child with cancer, extend by decades the lives of people with high blood pressure, prevent unwanted pregnancies, ease the aches and pains of everyday life. You ever have a good Margarita after a BAD day?
*People* who have problems destroy their families, friendships, and lives. There are many vehicles that someone in trouble can use to distance themselves from the people who could help them, drugs *can* be *one* of them, infidelity another, just being remote and inaccessable can work, too. TOO MANY MARGARITAS ARE A BAD THING. ( I should not have had to say that, but some people are obtuse.) You should not displace your fear of these things onto the first handy target some elements in the Governement present you.
It's so much easier for someone to say "Daddy doesn't love me because he's $HOOKED. He's a good person, it's the $POISION_OF_CHOICE" than to admit the truth that your father's an asshole who hates you, and your whole family is fucked up. Welcome to reality. Get over it.
Or not, If you're NOT ABLE to face reality, and deal with it objectively, then I suppose you need the crutch of a Government which tells you what is right and what is wrong. If you need that kind of help, it's ok, BUT don't impose YOUR HANDICAP and need for a crutch on everyone else. Admit that you're incompetent, and accept that others know better than you, and be grateful that the government provides for you, but don't for a minute think that YOU'RE NORMAL.
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and people who put their allegiance in a Corporation rather than their State do not deserve Citizenship.
If you're NOT a New Yorker FIRST (ok, I'll grant being an American is ok, but just for this discussion...), but a Republican or Democrat or Green or whatever, GET YOUR DAMMED DIRTY HANDS OFF MY COUNTRY.
The Parties ARE The Problem.
It looks like the didn't need a computer, they needed a Playstation.
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It's cheaper that 87 Billion, and we'll be able to export all the energy we need from space to the earth with microwave power station
16 billion dollars, and no more energy war
or
87 billion dollars, and War Forever!
You're right, but not about the cost... It's the will.. TPTB don't WANT energy independance. But it's still THE solution to the problem.
Jerry Pournelle's got a great plan, for 16 Billion, we get orbital travel, a space station that works, and a moon colony!
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/view/view274.html#NA SAfix
If they had copies of the stuff that's licensed so I can check it against my linux. She said that she didn't have it anything for me. Sounded really sad that she couldn't have helped.
Nah... Look at what Citigroup/Chase just did... Paid out 300 Million dollars to settle charges that they helped Enron defraud people..
IF you get caught, and have a fat bank account, it's just a matter of details...
Look at OJ.
By acting against the public interest, and abusing their Corporate Charters, they've given up their priviledge of participating in our society.
Liquidating them, and recinding their copyrights is only a matter of details.
::Get over it. The Union won.
Really, where's the peace treaty, or the Executive Order ending hostilities?
But they're not "privately owned" if they're owned by a Public Company.
Yup... PUBLIC COMPANIES are given charters FIRST TO BENEFIT THE PUBLIC, and SECOND to secure a special legal status from the Gubmint (let 'em sell shares, special regulations apply to them, etc.)
By saying 'This is "Private" property, they're showing Bad Faith in dealing with the People, and violating their charter.
An honest Judge would dissolve the comany, and revoke the charter for the audacity.
New York State's got a bunch of "Civil Rights Laws" which guarantee equal access, too. You can trump a Tresspass violation with a few counts of that, and if you'd care to, there's a bunch NICE Federal codes that are VERY RESTRICTIVE... (Did someone tell you to do this? Yes? Good! That's a FEDERAL FELONY... 10 years, in a Federal Prision,
Uh... Remember what happened at crossgates mall in Albany, New York?
1 .h tml
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/crossgates
Read any of Jon Kabat-Zinn's books; Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness and Wherever You Go, There You Are.
you state:
.isos and fansubbed anime?
.torrents and trackers. They just use the bittorrent protocol as a data transport mechanism. The APPLICATION itself is a kludge. (It was a good kludge, to, as they go...) That's why it's broken. Build something better, more resistant to these failures/attacks at the APPLICATION level, but tinkering with the transport level is foolish...
"tracker decentralization is absolutely necessary if bittorrent is going to thirve in a competetive (legal) environment."
What do you mean by 'thrive'? Seems to me, bittorrent is working quite well. How do you grab
What 'products' does bittorrent compete against?
Gnutella? Kaaza? Furthernet?
Nope.
Those are filesharing network tools. They need cataloging, searching, and distributed control.
Bittorrent is not a fileshareing tool. It's a software/data distribution tool. Keep the design goals in mind, and the REASONS for the features will be obvious.
Now, what we've seen, is some folks creating 'filesharing applications' by writing web sites that catalog
or fix the damn country, and strip 'Personhood' from Corporations. Then there wouldn't be the exploitation of Congress' authority under Article I, section 8... But that's another rant...
and you go on to offer,
"1.) 2 really cheap servers can do the same job as 1 really really expensive server"
This appears to be a comment to the effect that bittorrent trackers require really really expensive servers to operate effieciently. I have no evidence to support that claim, but have seen a number of properly operating bittorrent trackers on quite modest hardware. Anyone with more experience in scaling trackers care to chime in?
and
"2.) redundancy is necessary to achieve stability."
Ok, again, all the evidence I've seen is negative. I've never known the fact that a tracker's a single-point-of-failure to be any more of an issue than, say, hosting content on a ftp server.
Maybe it's helpful to think of it as a really fast ftp server. If you know what you want, and the 'server' is up (which in this case is a combo of tracker/seeds/clients), then everything works great. If you don't know what you want, or the infrastructure doesn't cooperate, then, well, no one said life would be fair...
I've always objected to the application of copyright law to trivial entertainment products...
RIAA members 'product' does NOT promote the advancement of Science and the useful arts, SO.. the laws surrounding it are unconstitutional.
Did you sign you driver's license application, agreeing to abide by their rules? If so, then you need to play nice with the officer as he enforces the rules YOU AGREED TO!
Stop whining about how "they" have taken away your rights. You exchanged them for the license.
TSOP = Total System Override Program
From the Bolo Books. Lets a Human shutdown a rogue Bolo if it ever goes out of control.
Sheesh, Don't they teach Literature anymore???
Libertarians are Republicans who get high...
EEK!
Here's a failure mode I'd like to share.
Arena IDE-RAID boxes... They don't always flag a drive bad, (and ask you to replace it), when drives start experienceing bad clusters. It'll *try* to remap them, but if it doesn't, if fails WITHOUT WARNING. (~500GB on 75GB DeathStars...) Think about it.
Really? When I READ the New York Vehicle and Traffic Code, it's quite clear that the point of licensing and registration is to provide for the timely resolution of insurance claims.
Don't make me dig up the cites for you... Do it yourself, and you'll learn it.
Of course it's slashdotted by now... Here's a copy out of google's cache...
And so, you say an attorney/client relationship exists b/t the da and the District/Commenwealth. Should one just assume that realtionship exists, or if it's a VALID one, they would be able to prove it with evidence? Perhaps a contract which could be entered into evidence to support it? Wonder what would happen if the kid pursued the point with more finesse... Probably still get thrown in the cooler...
Where's my mod points! A great suggestion!
If you READ the New York Vehicle and Traffic Code, it's pretty clear the whole licensing and registration thing is provided for the swift resolution of Insurance Claims. Conning you into believing they are "The States" roads is just the way it's abused most often. If they ARE "The States" roads, I'd like to see them PROVE Title to them.
>"Dropping the war on drugs is only slightly less absurd than dropping laws against murder."
Any more absurd then, and pay attention here, DECLARING WAR AGAINST YOUR OWN CITIZENS? And isn't that EXACTLY what President and Commander-in-Chief Richard Milhous Nixon did?
It may be called "War on Drugs", but if the "War on Terror" is fought against Terrorists, isn't the "War on Drugs" fought against DRUGGISTS!
And now that we've gotten ourselves into a "REAL WAR" ( well, I suppose it's real...) , doesn't all that wasted time and money seem even more pointless, since the "War on D rugs" has caused more harm to America than anything else since the Civil War? Maybe even more than the civil war. And that had 22,000 Americans dead at a single battle. (I'm thinking Shiloh...)
And those "Druggists" ARE CITIZENS, your FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, and TAXPAYERS.
(until the Exec. Order which redefines that... and if you think it's too unlikely, answer this:
Can you lose you "Drivers Licence" (And in case you weren't watching, now it's your National ID card...) or "Student Loan" (Those are Federal College Education Benefits) for "Convictions" against "anti-drug laws"?)
What is the legal status of someone who declares a War on Citizens of the United States? If they've sworn an Oath to The Constitution, aren't they committing Treason? (How about Seditious Conspiracy?)
That is the foundation upon which this "War On Drugs" is built, and that is why it was a LOST CAUSE ever since it was declared. NOTHING HAS EVER CHANGED FOR ALL THE WASTED MONEY AND HUMAN POTENTIAL!
Oh....
You also really need to learn some more about how Laws work on paper. (The *reality* is that The Officers can kill you, and the Judge, Defense, and Prosecution will conspire to conduct the criminal prosecution of the Officers in such a way that the "Jury" has, due to the evidence (not) presented, and the "Instructions To The Jury" no choice but to acquit.
BUT on paper....
there must be clear, articuable facts that YOU "probably caused" the INJURY to the COMPLAINTENT.
There must be a) a COMPLAINTENT b) an INJURY and c) EVIDENCE indicting you for a LAWFUL ARREST. (Do you get the idea that most arrests today aren't LAWFUL. Did you even notice that?)
Now, prohibitive laws don't follow this recipe. When someone is arrested, the relevent questions are: WHO IS THE COMPLAINTENT, and WHAT IS THE INJURY. Without those 2 it's not even relevent asking: "What's the evidence?"
> Drugs destroy families, friendships, and lives; why should our government encourage their use"
Metaphorically, you mean. In reality, it's Drugs that ease the mortal pain of the child with cancer, extend by decades the lives of people with high blood pressure, prevent unwanted pregnancies, ease the aches and pains of everyday life. You ever have a good Margarita after a BAD day?
*People* who have problems destroy their families, friendships, and lives. There are many vehicles that someone in trouble can use to distance themselves from the people who could help them, drugs *can* be *one* of them, infidelity another, just being remote and inaccessable can work, too. TOO MANY MARGARITAS ARE A BAD THING. ( I should not have had to say that, but some people are obtuse.) You should not displace your fear of these things onto the first handy target some elements in the Governement present you.
It's so much easier for someone to say "Daddy doesn't love me because he's $HOOKED. He's a good person, it's the $POISION_OF_CHOICE" than to admit the truth that your father's an asshole who hates you, and your whole family is fucked up. Welcome to reality. Get over it.
Or not, If you're NOT ABLE to face reality, and deal with it objectively, then I suppose you need the crutch of a Government which tells you what is right and what is wrong. If you need that kind of help, it's ok, BUT don't impose YOUR HANDICAP and need for a crutch on everyone else. Admit that you're incompetent, and accept that others know better than you, and be grateful that the government provides for you, but don't for a minute think that YOU'RE NORMAL.
What evidence can you present to support that assertion?
Right On Brother!