I know the guy who does this, and he probably gets laid a hell of a lot more often than you do. It's not like this is something he does in his free time - it's a job.
Said guy was actually proposing doing a workshop at Linuxconf on how to wear deoderant and talk to girls. I'll tell you when he's running it, so you can apply.
Discussion still reigns as to whether he wears the AR gear while he does the deed. I'm sure he's tried it once - but then, who wouldn't?
In my opinion, part of being an adult is maturity, and I see very little maturity in someone who panders after their banal instincts.
Though I guess my view of mature included the acceptance that pretty much everyone's lives are, at some basic level, controlled by sex. As Jerry Seinfeld says, "That's why men build bridges, climb mountains, go to the moon!"
Why should we hide from acts that are not only common, but necessary for the propagation of the species? Since we're all going to do it sooner or later, what's so bad about seeing someone else do it.
I think it's more adult to accept as natural and beautiful what happens between a man.. and a woman...
Look at Craig Reynolds' work at www.red3d.com. He developed a similar distributed system for use in computer animation in 1987. Very good for modelling groups of animals such as flocks or herds.
The general concept at use here - complex, adaptive behaviour resulting from local interactions between agents - is referred to as emergence, and has been a subject of research since the animation work of Reynolds' and the robotic work of Rodney Brooks (from about 1986 on).
It is good to see big corps showing an interest in it though.
And yeah, it seems pretty obvious to me too. But some people are married to the top-down, centralized approach I guess...
"Do you have any expectation as to whether or not you will be putting together a similar demonstration for this part of the case?" state lawyers asked.
Translation: "Hey, going to try and obviously mislead the court again? Why not? It was such a good laugh the last time!"
Doesn't a Turing Test (which by its nature involves bits, rather than physical world) more accurately reflect the nature of intelligence?
Well, it depends on what you think intelligence is. The traditional view of AI was that the real meat of 'intelligence', the real tough stuff that we should try to solve, is rational reasoning. Playing chess, dealing with logic. Dealing with uncertainty and physically acting were not meant to be part of the problem - the view was that given a good enough reasoning machine, you could just plug on some decent sensors and motors and it would walk around just fine.
However, the reality turned out to be quite the opposite. It turned out that getting a computer to play chess is a hell of a lot easier than getting it to climb stairs. And so a couple of people, especially Rodney Brooks at MIT, started suggesting in the 1980's that everyone had had it the wrong way around - that dealing with uncertainty and unpredictability and the physical world was the essence of intelligence.
This school of thought is referred to as situatedness or embodiment. It suggests that intelligence is never as general as previously suggested - rather than a single great reasoning machine connected to motors and sensors, all the intelligent systems we know of - animals, us - are made up of a whole lot of highly specialized systems adapted to particular evolutionary niches. You cannot develop an intelligent system in isolation from the environment it is to work in - models always fall short. In Brooks' own words, 'The world is its own best model'. One of Brooks' points is that efficient land locomotion took much longer to evolve than reasoning - monkeys to humans is a shorter evolutionary step than fish to frogs.
So the end answer to your question is that a lot of people think, and there is reasonable evidence, that uncertainty and unpredictability are the real problems of intelligence, and understanding how a system develops and adapts to its environment is at the heart of discovering why and how we are intelligent.
Average people, that's who. And as someone who works with them and lives among them, I can tell you that they're getting pissed and demoralized.
I don't work with them and live among them. I AM one. I just happen to be doing a PhD, and some of them don't. In the end, that's not because I'm more motivated - hell I'm not particularly motivated. It's dumb luck and genetics, that I'm better at analyzing information on the fly than some other people.
I hate this attitude of 'well, it's your fault.' It seems to me the classic way of screwing over people without feeling guilty. Blame the victim for the crime. It's not THEIR fault - it's YOUR dumb luck. If you never knew about computers, if you weren't born as smart as you were, you WOULD be them.
(To pyramid termite - I am agreeing with your points here. Just wanted to add a bit).
The difference between Angell and Beck is that Angell (correctly, IMO) scoffs at the idea that the technological elite will be a "more communicative and civically-involved" citizen. Acting in their own (enlightened or otherwise) self-interest, such citizens may be more "global" and "better-informed", but they'll likely just relocate to wherever taxes are lowest and the underclass is kept at a safe distance.
Or, as put by the voiceover guy for The PowerPuff Girls, 'being a professor doesn't make you a smart guy.' Smart or dumb, assholes are still assholes.
(Come to think of it, that PowerPuff Girls episode was about the professor building a big robot for the Girls to use, and it backfiring badly).
Get ready to see your programming job get exported to India and China. Drop your mythical notions that all people in these countries know how to do is customer support.
You did use mythical, Ars-Fartsica, so I figure YOU don't believe this, but I'm wondering who the hell at Slashdot would? Because from what I heard, two of the firms with the best software processes in the world are Indian. And a fair chunk of the programmers in Silicon Valley, in Australia and everywhere else are Indian or Chinese.
Or what? Did you think only AMERICANS knew how to program? I'm sure Linus would find that funny. And I'm sure that if the scenario you are predicting happens, the Indian and Chinese kids would be a bit miffed that we are bemoaning their chance to get a decent job for once.
I know bugger-all economics, but you seem to be suggesting the development of programming 'sweat-shops' in India and China. There are already plenty of programmers in these countries - and they are middle-class and educated, just like most of us. And they'll probably demand the same wages and standards of living.
Considering the current rate of growth in the software market in India, I'd say that if the movement of programming jobs to India was a problem for America, we'd already be seeing the effects. I didn't think we were.
The numbers in each of these markets is shrinking, not increasing.
Whoa, back up the truck. As far as I can tell, there's one big company selling word processors and spreadsheets. But to just write this off as de-facto standards and platforms is to ignore the major reaming Microsoft performed on all the other standards and platforms. You know, all that stuff that we manage to bitch about as part of every slashdot article?
If we use Microsoft's business methods as a basis for the software market as a whole (shudder), all the programming jobs will just be replaced with jobs in legal and marketing.
Another method is the Brownian Ratchet. This consists of a nano-sized wheel, with a ratchet allowing movement in only one direction. Brownian motion in the water will move the wheel in random directions, but as the ratchet only allows movement in one direction, the result is a slowly rotating wheel. Still pretty theoretical, but then, so is the rest of this:).
Some pervert persuades your 9 year old daughter into having sex with him.
Simple. Sex without consent is considered a forceful act. As a 9 year old cannot consent to sex, any sex is a forceful act against their will, whether they are persuaded to or not.
One could also suggest that persuading a 9 year old to have sex is prima facie fraud. The child is inevitably being deceived.
A slovenly neighbor leaves all manner of junk in his yard, bringing down local property values.
Well.. isn't it a free country? Why the hell can't I leave junk in my yard? Why are YOUR property values MY concern? I would suggest that under this code, property values do not count as 'harm'. Provided the junk isn't dangerous in anyway (and therefore a threat of force) why should you be legally enforced to be tidy?
A 17 year old teenager with a Trans Am drives through your residential neighborhood at over 100 miles an hour.
I would say A Trans Am travelling at an unsafe speed through a residential neighborhood is a threat of force, considering what it would do to anyone it hit - and considering that under the circumstances, there is a high chance it could hit someone. 'Nuff said.
I thought half the reason that these games were released in Japan first was because they were designed in Japan, by the Japanese.
The thing I love about some of the japanese games - Mario, Pimkin, Kuru Kuru Kurunin, etc - is that they are so off the wall that I can't imagine an american game company supporting them. I can just imagine the marketing department: "Gee, a game based on a midget plumber eating mushrooms. That will sell!".
Careful what you wish for. You might get the good games in America first, but if the good games are just Doom 5, NHL 2003 and Grand Turismo 15, then you'll be begging to have Miyamoto back.
But I'm Australian so I'm not particularly sympathetic to this post anyway.
I'd heard that they have done all the filming for the entire trilogy. However, since the entire film needs to go through the renderfarms, the remaining two episodes have not been finished yet.
Balloons. Whats wrong with having a computer-controlled balloon with a cannister of hydrogen or helium beneath it?
Research is going on in this area. For example, a proposal from a Texas Uni is here: www.tsgc.utexas.edu/tadp/2001/tcu.pdf. It's not a trivial problem - the air's a lot thinner on Mars, so a Mars balloon would need to be v. similar to a high-altitude balloon on earth.
If not balloons, why not use spring-loaded "grasshoppers" ?
ANd for this one, see here - http://www.beyond2000.com/news/Nov_00/story_900.ht ml
Sure, brainless observers & reporters arent nearly as glamorous as FLYING ROBOT INSECTS, but Mars exploration isnt about being able to license the design to Matchbox to sell miniatures of your invention to kids. Its about getting the job done as cheaply and reliably as possible.
Well, when you're trying to get funding, and when you want publicity (hell, who doesn't) being glamorous IS important. Unfortunately, this is what led to years of AI researchers talking about how their computers were going to be smarter than humans oh... any day now. Believing your own hype is a classic AI disease.
And in the research field, you've gotta have your own angle, otherwise no-one will pay attention. On the good side, this leads to people trying out wild and crazy ideas about flapping wing robots (and off-the-wall ideas that end up working). On the down side, it leads to no end Academic Bitchfighting over whose idea is better.
Why are you so small-minded and petty that you cry troll at the slightest provocation?
Possibly, because the link between 'suitability of Linux in Office aps' and 'use of Linux as a render farm for LOTR' was fairly tenuous.
And after you see so many Slashdot Stories turn into Microsoft v. Linux for SOHO users falme wars, you get a bit jaded.
Though if you wait about 10, 20 minutes, someone'll post a story about KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice, etc. where your post will fit in perfectly.
Also, you forget the rallying cry of the Linux coders (myself not included): if you don't like it, change it!
I'm also annoyed that it does all this flashy stuff while still not getting the basics right
That's an interesting point - many Linux advocates (myself included on this point) would say that Windows is the flashy one, and Linux gets the basics right. Basics like stability, security....
If this is true, then there is no hope for natural evolution ever again. Just remember everything that is beautiful in this world as you watch it be replaced with technology.
Well, I'm a robotics researcher, and I'd say some of the technology IS beautiful.... but humans buggered up evolution already - just by being human.
Humans don't evolve anymore. Evolution is based on survival of the fittest - who passes their genes on. When we were just walking apes, this was based on strength, musculature, straightness of limbs, etc - basically, what we now find attractive. But that doesn't correlate with our success as humans anymore. Hell, the ugly don't get weeded out, they just live in trailer parks. And if Jerry Springer is anything to go by, they breed more than anyone else.
And animals have pretty screwed up evolution these days anyway - most of them have their survival/prosperity determined what humans want. Animals like the Bulldog have gradually developed into species designed to look a certain way, not to be healthy, because of human interference in their evolution.
But it is unparalleled elsewhere. In what other nation can you go to the nation's highest court and announce "Fuck the draft?" with absolute immunity?
But you can't say it on TV before 8:30pm, whereas you can in Germany. And you can't show nudity before 8:30. Though the US has a good constitution, they'll have even freer speech if people stopped trying to censor on 'moral' grounds.
Just pointing out that like every issue, this isn't absolute.
And I could say "fuck the draft" in the Australian high court. And I don't think that trumps the Taiwanese parliament - there, not only can you say 'fuck you' to other parliamentarians, but you can beat the shit out of any parliamentarian who says it to you.
University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Arthur Caplan
I don't know the guy, so don't take this as referring to him, but in the case of the main 'bioethicist' I've read of (who will remain nameless), 'bioethicist' means 'ex-priest quoting dogma and expecting people to take him as a serious scientist'.
Arthur Caplan may be a trained bioethicist, but what does that have to do with information? I thought bioethicists were meant to talk about gene modification and cloning and stuff. Not Terrorism.
I urge many of you to start an information cache. If you must, bury PVC vaults with information in them in safe locations (Geocaches)
Why go to this trouble? The perfect information storage medium was invented about 20, 30 years ago now.
Digitize the info, encrypt it, dump it on a remote computer somewhere - or on your hard drive.
Then distribute the info to anyone else who asks for it. So we have a million copies on a million computers. A lot of this stuff is words, and simple pictures - we've got 20gb drives these days. Everyone can keep a copy.
Show them what we mean when we say "Information wants to be free".
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Is this guy trying to be sarcastic?
From jpfo:
Gran'pa Jack #7
- Do Gun Prohibitionists Have a Mental Problem?
- by Dr. Sarah Thompson and Aaron Zelman
We're supposed to have a mental problem because we fear guns.
That's kind of funny - I fear guns because THEY CAN FSCKING KILL ME. I would suggest NOT fearing guns is the mental problem.
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I know the guy who does this, and he probably gets laid a hell of a lot more often than you do. It's not like this is something he does in his free time - it's a job.
Said guy was actually proposing doing a workshop at Linuxconf on how to wear deoderant and talk to girls. I'll tell you when he's running it, so you can apply.
Discussion still reigns as to whether he wears the AR gear while he does the deed. I'm sure he's tried it once - but then, who wouldn't?
Wait 'til the day before it's due... then I can find the Zone _real_ easily. At least, that's what I did through Uni.
As someone (can't remember who) once said, "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."
In my opinion, part of being an adult is maturity, and I see very little maturity in someone who panders after their banal instincts.
Though I guess my view of mature included the acceptance that pretty much everyone's lives are, at some basic level, controlled by sex. As Jerry Seinfeld says, "That's why men build bridges, climb mountains, go to the moon!"
Why should we hide from acts that are not only common, but necessary for the propagation of the species? Since we're all going to do it sooner or later, what's so bad about seeing someone else do it.
I think it's more adult to accept as natural and beautiful what happens between a man.. and a woman...
Let's just hope they don't try and patent it.
Look at Craig Reynolds' work at www.red3d.com. He developed a similar distributed system for use in computer animation in 1987. Very good for modelling groups of animals such as flocks or herds.
The general concept at use here - complex, adaptive behaviour resulting from local interactions between agents - is referred to as emergence, and has been a subject of research since the animation work of Reynolds' and the robotic work of Rodney Brooks (from about 1986 on).
It is good to see big corps showing an interest in it though.
And yeah, it seems pretty obvious to me too. But some people are married to the top-down, centralized approach I guess...
I love this line...
"Do you have any expectation as to whether or not you will be putting together a similar demonstration for this part of the case?" state lawyers asked.
Translation: "Hey, going to try and obviously mislead the court again? Why not? It was such a good laugh the last time!"
... but you'd have to give me some time to raise the $5 million.
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of Commander Tacos..
(I am so getting modded down for this. Congratulations you two crazy kids).
Well, it depends on what you think intelligence is. The traditional view of AI was that the real meat of 'intelligence', the real tough stuff that we should try to solve, is rational reasoning. Playing chess, dealing with logic. Dealing with uncertainty and physically acting were not meant to be part of the problem - the view was that given a good enough reasoning machine, you could just plug on some decent sensors and motors and it would walk around just fine.
However, the reality turned out to be quite the opposite. It turned out that getting a computer to play chess is a hell of a lot easier than getting it to climb stairs. And so a couple of people, especially Rodney Brooks at MIT, started suggesting in the 1980's that everyone had had it the wrong way around - that dealing with uncertainty and unpredictability and the physical world was the essence of intelligence.
This school of thought is referred to as situatedness or embodiment. It suggests that intelligence is never as general as previously suggested - rather than a single great reasoning machine connected to motors and sensors, all the intelligent systems we know of - animals, us - are made up of a whole lot of highly specialized systems adapted to particular evolutionary niches. You cannot develop an intelligent system in isolation from the environment it is to work in - models always fall short. In Brooks' own words, 'The world is its own best model'. One of Brooks' points is that efficient land locomotion took much longer to evolve than reasoning - monkeys to humans is a shorter evolutionary step than fish to frogs.
So the end answer to your question is that a lot of people think, and there is reasonable evidence, that uncertainty and unpredictability are the real problems of intelligence, and understanding how a system develops and adapts to its environment is at the heart of discovering why and how we are intelligent.
And besides - robots are cool :)
Average people, that's who. And as someone who works with them and lives among them, I can tell you that they're getting pissed and demoralized.
I don't work with them and live among them. I AM one. I just happen to be doing a PhD, and some of them don't. In the end, that's not because I'm more motivated - hell I'm not particularly motivated. It's dumb luck and genetics, that I'm better at analyzing information on the fly than some other people.
I hate this attitude of 'well, it's your fault.' It seems to me the classic way of screwing over people without feeling guilty. Blame the victim for the crime. It's not THEIR fault - it's YOUR dumb luck. If you never knew about computers, if you weren't born as smart as you were, you WOULD be them.
(To pyramid termite - I am agreeing with your points here. Just wanted to add a bit).
The difference between Angell and Beck is that Angell (correctly, IMO) scoffs at the idea that the technological elite will be a "more communicative and civically-involved" citizen. Acting in their own (enlightened or otherwise) self-interest, such citizens may be more "global" and "better-informed", but they'll likely just relocate to wherever taxes are lowest and the underclass is kept at a safe distance.
Or, as put by the voiceover guy for The PowerPuff Girls, 'being a professor doesn't make you a smart guy.' Smart or dumb, assholes are still assholes.
(Come to think of it, that PowerPuff Girls episode was about the professor building a big robot for the Girls to use, and it backfiring badly).
Get ready to see your programming job get exported to India and China. Drop your mythical notions that all people in these countries know how to do is customer support.
You did use mythical, Ars-Fartsica, so I figure YOU don't believe this, but I'm wondering who the hell at Slashdot would? Because from what I heard, two of the firms with the best software processes in the world are Indian. And a fair chunk of the programmers in Silicon Valley, in Australia and everywhere else are Indian or Chinese.
Or what? Did you think only AMERICANS knew how to program? I'm sure Linus would find that funny. And I'm sure that if the scenario you are predicting happens, the Indian and Chinese kids would be a bit miffed that we are bemoaning their chance to get a decent job for once.
I know bugger-all economics, but you seem to be suggesting the development of programming 'sweat-shops' in India and China. There are already plenty of programmers in these countries - and they are middle-class and educated, just like most of us. And they'll probably demand the same wages and standards of living.
Considering the current rate of growth in the software market in India, I'd say that if the movement of programming jobs to India was a problem for America, we'd already be seeing the effects. I didn't think we were.
The numbers in each of these markets is shrinking, not increasing.
Whoa, back up the truck. As far as I can tell, there's one big company selling word processors and spreadsheets. But to just write this off as de-facto standards and platforms is to ignore the major reaming Microsoft performed on all the other standards and platforms. You know, all that stuff that we manage to bitch about as part of every slashdot article?
If we use Microsoft's business methods as a basis for the software market as a whole (shudder), all the programming jobs will just be replaced with jobs in legal and marketing.
Another method is the Brownian Ratchet. This consists of a nano-sized wheel, with a ratchet allowing movement in only one direction. Brownian motion in the water will move the wheel in random directions, but as the ratchet only allows movement in one direction, the result is a slowly rotating wheel. Still pretty theoretical, but then, so is the rest of this :).
Some pervert persuades your 9 year old daughter into having sex with him.
Simple. Sex without consent is considered a forceful act. As a 9 year old cannot consent to sex, any sex is a forceful act against their will, whether they are persuaded to or not.
One could also suggest that persuading a 9 year old to have sex is prima facie fraud. The child is inevitably being deceived.
A slovenly neighbor leaves all manner of junk in his yard, bringing down local property values.
Well.. isn't it a free country? Why the hell can't I leave junk in my yard? Why are YOUR property values MY concern? I would suggest that under this code, property values do not count as 'harm'. Provided the junk isn't dangerous in anyway (and therefore a threat of force) why should you be legally enforced to be tidy?
A 17 year old teenager with a Trans Am drives through your residential neighborhood at over 100 miles an hour.
I would say A Trans Am travelling at an unsafe speed through a residential neighborhood is a threat of force, considering what it would do to anyone it hit - and considering that under the circumstances, there is a high chance it could hit someone. 'Nuff said.
I thought half the reason that these games were released in Japan first was because they were designed in Japan, by the Japanese.
The thing I love about some of the japanese games - Mario, Pimkin, Kuru Kuru Kurunin, etc - is that they are so off the wall that I can't imagine an american game company supporting them. I can just imagine the marketing department: "Gee, a game based on a midget plumber eating mushrooms. That will sell!".
Careful what you wish for. You might get the good games in America first, but if the good games are just Doom 5, NHL 2003 and Grand Turismo 15, then you'll be begging to have Miyamoto back.
But I'm Australian so I'm not particularly sympathetic to this post anyway.
I'd heard that they have done all the filming for the entire trilogy. However, since the entire film needs to go through the renderfarms, the remaining two episodes have not been finished yet.
Balloons. Whats wrong with having a computer-controlled balloon with a cannister of hydrogen or helium beneath it?
Research is going on in this area. For example, a proposal from a Texas Uni is here: www.tsgc.utexas.edu/tadp/2001/tcu.pdf. It's not a trivial problem - the air's a lot thinner on Mars, so a Mars balloon would need to be v. similar to a high-altitude balloon on earth.
If not balloons, why not use spring-loaded "grasshoppers" ?
ANd for this one, see here - http://www.beyond2000.com/news/Nov_00/story_900.ht ml
Sure, brainless observers & reporters arent nearly as glamorous as FLYING ROBOT INSECTS, but Mars exploration isnt about being able to license the design to Matchbox to sell miniatures of your invention to kids. Its about getting the job done as cheaply and reliably as possible.
Well, when you're trying to get funding, and when you want publicity (hell, who doesn't) being glamorous IS important. Unfortunately, this is what led to years of AI researchers talking about how their computers were going to be smarter than humans oh... any day now. Believing your own hype is a classic AI disease.
And in the research field, you've gotta have your own angle, otherwise no-one will pay attention. On the good side, this leads to people trying out wild and crazy ideas about flapping wing robots (and off-the-wall ideas that end up working). On the down side, it leads to no end Academic Bitchfighting over whose idea is better.
Why are you so small-minded and petty that you cry troll at the slightest provocation?
Possibly, because the link between 'suitability of Linux in Office aps' and 'use of Linux as a render farm for LOTR' was fairly tenuous.
And after you see so many Slashdot Stories turn into Microsoft v. Linux for SOHO users falme wars, you get a bit jaded.
Though if you wait about 10, 20 minutes, someone'll post a story about KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice, etc. where your post will fit in perfectly.
Also, you forget the rallying cry of the Linux coders (myself not included): if you don't like it, change it!
I'm also annoyed that it does all this flashy stuff while still not getting the basics right
That's an interesting point - many Linux advocates (myself included on this point) would say that Windows is the flashy one, and Linux gets the basics right. Basics like stability, security....
Besides, you are WAY off topic.
No he isn't. Won't all these Linux Render Farms be used to animate Trolls?
If this is true, then there is no hope for natural evolution ever again. Just remember everything that is beautiful in this world as you watch it be replaced with technology.
Well, I'm a robotics researcher, and I'd say some of the technology IS beautiful.... but humans buggered up evolution already - just by being human.
Humans don't evolve anymore. Evolution is based on survival of the fittest - who passes their genes on. When we were just walking apes, this was based on strength, musculature, straightness of limbs, etc - basically, what we now find attractive. But that doesn't correlate with our success as humans anymore. Hell, the ugly don't get weeded out, they just live in trailer parks. And if Jerry Springer is anything to go by, they breed more than anyone else.
And animals have pretty screwed up evolution these days anyway - most of them have their survival/prosperity determined what humans want. Animals like the Bulldog have gradually developed into species designed to look a certain way, not to be healthy, because of human interference in their evolution.
But it is unparalleled elsewhere. In what other nation can you go to the nation's highest court and announce "Fuck the draft?" with absolute immunity?
But you can't say it on TV before 8:30pm, whereas you can in Germany. And you can't show nudity before 8:30. Though the US has a good constitution, they'll have even freer speech if people stopped trying to censor on 'moral' grounds.
Just pointing out that like every issue, this isn't absolute.
And I could say "fuck the draft" in the Australian high court. And I don't think that trumps the Taiwanese parliament - there, not only can you say 'fuck you' to other parliamentarians, but you can beat the shit out of any parliamentarian who says it to you.
University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Arthur Caplan
I don't know the guy, so don't take this as referring to him, but in the case of the main 'bioethicist' I've read of (who will remain nameless), 'bioethicist' means 'ex-priest quoting dogma and expecting people to take him as a serious scientist'.
Arthur Caplan may be a trained bioethicist, but what does that have to do with information? I thought bioethicists were meant to talk about gene modification and cloning and stuff. Not Terrorism.
I urge many of you to start an information cache. If you must, bury PVC vaults with information in them in safe locations (Geocaches)
Why go to this trouble? The perfect information storage medium was invented about 20, 30 years ago now.
Digitize the info, encrypt it, dump it on a remote computer somewhere - or on your hard drive.
Then distribute the info to anyone else who asks for it. So we have a million copies on a million computers. A lot of this stuff is words, and simple pictures - we've got 20gb drives these days. Everyone can keep a copy.
Show them what we mean when we say "Information wants to be free".
Is this guy trying to be sarcastic?
From jpfo:
Gran'pa Jack #7 - Do Gun Prohibitionists Have a Mental Problem? - by Dr. Sarah Thompson and Aaron Zelman
We're supposed to have a mental problem because we fear guns.
That's kind of funny - I fear guns because THEY CAN FSCKING KILL ME. I would suggest NOT fearing guns is the mental problem.