People tend to spend change quicker than they do bills, especially here where change in meaningless. Having $5 and $10 coins would mean an instant boost to the conomy where people will be spending mor ein little increments than they think they are.
Well, they aren't concered about people like you, that's chump change... what they are concerned about is when somone shows up at a bank with 40 million in old $20's and wants a cashier's check...
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"That's fine, I just time-shifted your paycheck to make up the balance."
or even worse, to serve as a diversion for a terrorist act
Finally.. and answer to junk mail! In our society of banning the tool, not the act (a la Napster), this translates into banning all forms of junk mailings! WOOOOOOOT!
Well, the difference is in probability. If the probability of something is zero, then the chance is still zero... but if it's anything above that then that chance approaches 100%.
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I would go so far as to argue that the people who are most interested in the eventual manned exploration of space should be the people who should be *least* interested in supporting the status quo.
I think you are right, but we DO support teh status quo simply because we feel that it's either this or nothing at all. If NASA's budget were cut to zero tomorrow, how likely would a new space agency's budget get approved? Would it be a matter of years, decades, or would it never happen?
What stops somone from recording every possible audio signal for half a second and then copyrighting them all and claiming that avery song in existance is infringing? I'm serious, is it technically not feasible? Would teh courts just throw it out? Why isn't some get-rich-quick guru doing this now?
One of the things he talks about is how the virtual atoms can only exist right on top of the silicon substrate... Why can't the "atoms" that you are creating resemble more silicon substrate, complete with wires and all that it needs to function, and then sitting on top of that is yeat another virtual layer, ad nauseum until you create wahtever you want. All you would need is a little chip of "seed" substrate and you could "replicate" stuff... It wouldn't exist as soon as the power shuts off, but it would seem to exist until that point, right? So pseudo replication.
Umm, hate to break it to you, but RIAA is primarily a meatspace organization consisting of lawyers who sue people. You and all your cybergladiator rockstar hax0r friends, feel free to rake riaa.org and their scant other online assets over the coals. Get real...
Well, let's get real, then... If I were really in a cyber war, and not just futzing around, then I think I would hack into the accounts of the top execs and use thier power and access steal whatever financial information they have, especially the things that they don't let the "artists" legally see (like how much they should actually make in royalties)....then I might use those accounts again to set up ties with known al-queda terrorists. I would surveil the actual execs and make sure that whatever I set up with the terrorists coicides with thier actual movements during the day...
There are many things a cyber fighter can do to make changes in the meatspace world... Until recently, there just hasn't been a need.
I will never understand why people feel the need to use big words just to make themselves sound smarter. Case in point, saying "Rapid Open Source Development for the Unix Console" when what they really mean is "Perl".
You know, if you think about all the numbskulls on TNG that got assimilated, it only makes sense that their addition would have a negative impact on the collective... er, present company excluded?
So, um... ok, so.. Damn, I just can't understadn it. If you are going to just go ahead and write borg into teh show, why not do teh same with Khan, or even Kirk. I'm sure there could be some time paralell universe warp that causes Kirk to age and then appear in the enterprise for a few episodes... Sure, why not?
If you are sued by the RIAA, let it go to tiral... Then subpoaena all of thier financial and album sales records (find some legal reason to do this, lets say you need them to intend to prove that you did, in fact, pay them, even if you didn't). Make sure the records you ask for are the same ones that the artists are not allowed to audit or see becuase of the rules in the contract they signed. Then watch the case dissolve right before your eyes... Or, worst case, lose big time and delare bankruptcy and then watch the RIAA topple as the artists who they are very much stealing real money from start to sue.
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Seriously, it doesn't hurt you and maybe then you won't have to worry about him...
NEO rearranged is ONE, as in "The ONE"... blah blah, there are tons of these, don't get worked up over it.
People tend to spend change quicker than they do bills, especially here where change in meaningless. Having $5 and $10 coins would mean an instant boost to the conomy where people will be spending mor ein little increments than they think they are.
Well, they aren't concered about people like you, that's chump change... what they are concerned about is when somone shows up at a bank with 40 million in old $20's and wants a cashier's check...
"That's fine, I just time-shifted your paycheck to make up the balance."
or even worse, to serve as a diversion for a terrorist act
Finally.. and answer to junk mail! In our society of banning the tool, not the act (a la Napster), this translates into banning all forms of junk mailings! WOOOOOOOT!
Nihongo zen zen shaberarehen daiyo!
Right on the money, I am impressed!
"I think I will spend the next few years of my life learning how to speak fluent Modem."
Will that be phone, wireless, or broadband?
Why you little wise-ass, I oughtta BweeepPhsoooooOOOOOOOooo sHOOOOooooooo bweeeeeeeeeep be boooong pshoooooooooooo!
I invaded Syria, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt with a butterfly on it.
I think microsoft beat you to it...
Well, the difference is in probability. If the probability of something is zero, then the chance is still zero... but if it's anything above that then that chance approaches 100%.
I would go so far as to argue that the people who are most interested in the eventual manned exploration of space should be the people who should be *least* interested in supporting the status quo.
I think you are right, but we DO support teh status quo simply because we feel that it's either this or nothing at all. If NASA's budget were cut to zero tomorrow, how likely would a new space agency's budget get approved? Would it be a matter of years, decades, or would it never happen?
What stops somone from recording every possible audio signal for half a second and then copyrighting them all and claiming that avery song in existance is infringing? I'm serious, is it technically not feasible? Would teh courts just throw it out? Why isn't some get-rich-quick guru doing this now?
Those aren't MY terrorist plans to blow up Redmond, it belongs to AOL, just go look at the contract!
One of the things he talks about is how the virtual atoms can only exist right on top of the silicon substrate... Why can't the "atoms" that you are creating resemble more silicon substrate, complete with wires and all that it needs to function, and then sitting on top of that is yeat another virtual layer, ad nauseum until you create wahtever you want. All you would need is a little chip of "seed" substrate and you could "replicate" stuff... It wouldn't exist as soon as the power shuts off, but it would seem to exist until that point, right? So pseudo replication.
Hey, man: $45 will NOT buy you a decent steak dinner.
Actually, $22.50 steak * 2 = $45... He probably already has salt, pepper and an oven.
Clearly, 90% of the universe needs to be destroyed.
I think you meant "liberated".
Umm, hate to break it to you, but RIAA is primarily a meatspace organization consisting of lawyers who sue people. You and all your cybergladiator rockstar hax0r friends, feel free to rake riaa.org and their scant other online assets over the coals. Get real...
...then I might use those accounts again to set up ties with known al-queda terrorists. I would surveil the actual execs and make sure that whatever I set up with the terrorists coicides with thier actual movements during the day...
Well, let's get real, then... If I were really in a cyber war, and not just futzing around, then I think I would hack into the accounts of the top execs and use thier power and access steal whatever financial information they have, especially the things that they don't let the "artists" legally see (like how much they should actually make in royalties).
There are many things a cyber fighter can do to make changes in the meatspace world... Until recently, there just hasn't been a need.
I didn't even get into the child porn ring yet!
Write a worm that sets everyone's home-page to this... so very evil.
how do we prevent terrorist from using this kind of stuff?
That's easy! Everbody gets a cruise missle! Mututally Assured Destruction on a personal level.
I will never understand why people feel the need to use big words just to make themselves sound smarter. Case in point, saying "Rapid Open Source Development for the Unix Console" when what they really mean is "Perl".
You know, if you think about all the numbskulls on TNG that got assimilated, it only makes sense that their addition would have a negative impact on the collective... er, present company excluded?
So, um... ok, so.. Damn, I just can't understadn it. If you are going to just go ahead and write borg into teh show, why not do teh same with Khan, or even Kirk. I'm sure there could be some time paralell universe warp that causes Kirk to age and then appear in the enterprise for a few episodes... Sure, why not?
If you are sued by the RIAA, let it go to tiral... Then subpoaena all of thier financial and album sales records (find some legal reason to do this, lets say you need them to intend to prove that you did, in fact, pay them, even if you didn't). Make sure the records you ask for are the same ones that the artists are not allowed to audit or see becuase of the rules in the contract they signed. Then watch the case dissolve right before your eyes... Or, worst case, lose big time and delare bankruptcy and then watch the RIAA topple as the artists who they are very much stealing real money from start to sue.
and how much does the artists get?
I don't know, but I'll do the calculations and figure it out... Now, what's the exchange rate between flying pigs and snowballs in hell these days?