'That could include displaced baby boomer workers who have been out of work for some time and will take a lower paying job just to get back into the workforce.'
For example, the government pays for police that will arrest people going to an Apple Store with guns and taking whatever they want.
I think Apple can afford to hire their own security, don't you?
On the other hand, if the gov't does it, they can break into private citizens' establishments to steal back iBaubles that some Apple flunkie left in a bar.
The people at Apple and Google worked hard to earn that money, why should it be stolen from them to pay for giveaways to non-workers
Because while taxation may be tantamount to theft and it may be inherently evil and it may be desirable to minimise it as much as possible, we haven't yet found a more effective way to fund government services...
Yes we have, long ago. We did it ourselves; often poorly or with spotty coverage, I agree, but certainly not at the price gov't charges for it. I'm not even speaking of the monetary price here either. Unfortunately, our parents and grandparents got lazy and drank the big gov't Koolaid, and we've been enslaved to it ever since, going in deeper with each succeeding generation.
A professor at the University of Southern California delivered sustained attacks on Republicans, characterizing them as old, white, racist, and “losers.”
What's your point? That he didn't also characterize Democrats as old, white, racist, and "losers"?
I wish guys like you would let up on the Jews. They produce beautiful daughters.
It is not like you could trust anything that the people in power or the government over there have to say any more than "one nutcase".
I wonder why you make the distinction, "over there." Have you not been watching what's been happening over here? "People who live in glass houses..." and all that, ya know?
It often appears to me these days that Soviet and Nazi era policies have been exported and happily embraced by pretty much all the world, and hardly anybody expects, or is offering, any apologies. Curious. Progress?
I'm glad you used quotes around "arab spring", in reality it has turned out to be an islamist winter [washingtontimes.com].
That's from Oct. 2011. "This won't turn out well, kids!"
Why does it appear we're experiencing a full court press denouncing the Arab Spring this morning? Were you guys there poo pooing Hungary's and Czechoslovakia's attempted revolts too? Revolutions can be messy and all of these countries have a lot of messy stuff lingering from their previous regimes. We're still waiting for Russia to get over its problems after "getting rid of the Soviets" (chyaa, right!). Hell, we're still waiting for the UK to get over its British Empire crap.
What's the real agenda you're pushing? You remind me of GHWB's reticence to recognize the fall of the Soviets. I thought freedom was considered a good thing.
Meme streams. This is why we can't have nice things, spellcheckers.
Try proofreading; that thing your grade two teacher taught you?. Since when has an unsupervised device ever done the right thing? The DWIM ("Do What I Mean") key has yet to be invented.
A good carpenter doesn't blame his tools. Complaining about your failure just makes you look like a fool.
You ought to watch Gladiator again, but turn up the sound. I've watched it often enough to know that's really, "... The beating heart of Rome is not the marvel of the senate..."
I'm still wondering how (Julius) Caesar's assassins managed to get past the Praetorian Guard on their way out.
You got stick figures? All I get is the word "TIME" all alone by itself. Profound, or hungover?
No Javascript.
Javascript's turned on. Firefox/Iceweasel on Debian wheezy. Refreshed, now I see two miniscule stick figures on a black shoreline looking out over water(?) under a white sky. Zzzzz...
Call me old fashioned, but I'd rather have a government in charge than the digital investigative geniuses at 4chan and reddit.
Okay, you're old fashioned. Government agents are armed, the politicians have been bought by deep pocketed special interests, and all are working within a justice system that's been compromised, or corrupted in many people's view. Your "investigative geniuses" at the FBI are manufacturing terrorist plots. The DHS wants to fine services that don't install wiretap backdoors, there are revolving doors between the special interests and government, and the MafiAA has convinced your justice system to prosecute civil injuries as felonies, anywhere in the world that they please. For the forseeable future, the chance of electing anyone who's not a Demopublican or Republicrat is miniscule at best.
The most insightful thing I've seen here recently was, "Republicans ought to love Obama. He's doing everything they'd want to do."
I'd warn you to take off the blinkers, but it's likely already too late.
Only until some movie studio sends Google a notice of claimed infringement...
Here's an idea. Google "search engine". Google's not the only one out there. Now the MafiAA has to play whackamole with search engines too. Last I heard, there are still gopher servers running out there. They'll have to slap them into line too. What else?
... they're quickly running out of countries that'll give them a DNS address.
Are they? I haven't seen that. Yeah, they lose domains fairly quickly often, but they're pretty nimble and appear well capable of staying five or so steps ahead of their pursuers.
Yes, there will be entirely different solutions found...
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." -- John Gilmore
It's simply a bunch of machines and lines. What it does or does not depends entirely on human will, and whose will be exercised.
Without us (all of us humans out here using it), that would be correct. You ignore that fact, as do the authorities. If all the torrent trackers and search engines pointing to infringing material were magically shutdown, there'd still be sneakernet. How're you going to stop Samizdat? Even the Soviets couldn't.
Right now, it's not ours.
Yes it is, else TPB would have ceased to exist. It would have disappeared long ago.
What I think is amazing is that all this kafuffle about TPB is over a site that points to stuff. It hosts nothing but links. All of TPB reportedly can fit on a USB key. Yet nation after nation expends vast amounts of energy, time, and resources chasing them from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, no closer to catching or stopping them now than they were a decade ago. All because of copyright enforcement.
Meanwhile, anything that TPB offers can be found via almost any search engine. It's a strange, strange world.
I'd like someone to do a study showing how many domain changes TPB has churned through so far over time vs. the number of possibilities still open to them. I wonder how many centuries this game of cat and mouse (or whackamole) can go on, and we haven't even barely started widely implemented (ie.) OpenNic adoption.
Personally, I boycott. I sure do love to watch this show though.
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Zuckerberg and fellow tech billionaires: This is clear evidence that there's a shortage of people with the right skills ...
"... at the price we're willing to pay ..."
That's how. "We have shareholders, damnit! Have you seen what our stock is trading at?!?"
... being a racist and an asshole.
I think most people would consider the "and an asshole" there to be redundant.
'That could include displaced baby boomer workers who have been out of work for some time and will take a lower paying job just to get back into the workforce.'
I look forward to all the offers.
For example, the government pays for police that will arrest people going to an Apple Store with guns and taking whatever they want.
I think Apple can afford to hire their own security, don't you?
On the other hand, if the gov't does it, they can break into private citizens' establishments to steal back iBaubles that some Apple flunkie left in a bar.
Taxes are the price of civilization.
That is a lie and you should be ashamed to believe it. It's the same lie rulers and tyrants have been spewing for millennia.
The people at Apple and Google worked hard to earn that money, why should it be stolen from them to pay for giveaways to non-workers
Because while taxation may be tantamount to theft and it may be inherently evil and it may be desirable to minimise it as much as possible, we haven't yet found a more effective way to fund government services ...
Yes we have, long ago. We did it ourselves; often poorly or with spotty coverage, I agree, but certainly not at the price gov't charges for it. I'm not even speaking of the monetary price here either. Unfortunately, our parents and grandparents got lazy and drank the big gov't Koolaid, and we've been enslaved to it ever since, going in deeper with each succeeding generation.
Perhaps our great grand-kids will fix it.
Jeebus.
www.prothink.org
A professor at the University of Southern California delivered sustained attacks on Republicans, characterizing them as old, white, racist, and “losers.”
What's your point? That he didn't also characterize Democrats as old, white, racist, and "losers"?
I wish guys like you would let up on the Jews. They produce beautiful daughters.
XKCD [xkcd.com] kinda shows this problem.
Not really (but thanks for that anyway :-). My free email acct. allows attachments as big as 50 Mb.
It is not like you could trust anything that the people in power or the government over there have to say any more than "one nutcase".
I wonder why you make the distinction, "over there." Have you not been watching what's been happening over here? "People who live in glass houses ..." and all that, ya know?
It often appears to me these days that Soviet and Nazi era policies have been exported and happily embraced by pretty much all the world, and hardly anybody expects, or is offering, any apologies. Curious. Progress?
I'm glad you used quotes around "arab spring", in reality it has turned out to be an islamist winter [washingtontimes.com].
That's from Oct. 2011. "This won't turn out well, kids!"
Why does it appear we're experiencing a full court press denouncing the Arab Spring this morning? Were you guys there poo pooing Hungary's and Czechoslovakia's attempted revolts too? Revolutions can be messy and all of these countries have a lot of messy stuff lingering from their previous regimes. We're still waiting for Russia to get over its problems after "getting rid of the Soviets" (chyaa, right!). Hell, we're still waiting for the UK to get over its British Empire crap.
What's the real agenda you're pushing? You remind me of GHWB's reticence to recognize the fall of the Soviets. I thought freedom was considered a good thing.
... stop buying into memento streams.
Meme streams. This is why we can't have nice things, spellcheckers.
Try proofreading; that thing your grade two teacher taught you?. Since when has an unsupervised device ever done the right thing? The DWIM ("Do What I Mean") key has yet to be invented.
A good carpenter doesn't blame his tools. Complaining about your failure just makes you look like a fool.
Baseball? oh you mean that boring girls game ...
You were always the last to be picked, right?
Methinks Steppenwolf's classic has gone mainstream.
You ought to watch Gladiator again, but turn up the sound. I've watched it often enough to know that's really, "... The beating heart of Rome is not the marvel of the senate ..."
I'm still wondering how (Julius) Caesar's assassins managed to get past the Praetorian Guard on their way out.
Strength and honour.
Does everyone see these malformed characters or is it a problem in my Web browser?
However, it would be nice if copy/paste would reproduce mdash and other entities properly.
It's a feature. It lets us easily and quickly determine whether poster is a man or a boy. Or a Windows dork or Mac dweeb.
... now I see two miniscule stick figures on a black shoreline looking out over water(?) under a white sky. Zzzzz ...
I guess I spoke too soon. Now "he" has dropped his pack and is walking down to the water's edge(?).
Where's all the explosions and car chases, blood/gore/guts? And sex? Comedy? Drama? Hello?
You got stick figures? All I get is the word "TIME" all alone by itself. Profound, or hungover?
No Javascript.
Javascript's turned on. Firefox/Iceweasel on Debian wheezy. Refreshed, now I see two miniscule stick figures on a black shoreline looking out over water(?) under a white sky. Zzzzz ...
I looked at it. Big black flat space with two stick figures.
You got stick figures? All I get is the word "TIME" all alone by itself. Profound, or hungover?
Call me old fashioned, but I'd rather have a government in charge than the digital investigative geniuses at 4chan and reddit.
Okay, you're old fashioned. Government agents are armed, the politicians have been bought by deep pocketed special interests, and all are working within a justice system that's been compromised, or corrupted in many people's view. Your "investigative geniuses" at the FBI are manufacturing terrorist plots. The DHS wants to fine services that don't install wiretap backdoors, there are revolving doors between the special interests and government, and the MafiAA has convinced your justice system to prosecute civil injuries as felonies, anywhere in the world that they please. For the forseeable future, the chance of electing anyone who's not a Demopublican or Republicrat is miniscule at best.
The most insightful thing I've seen here recently was, "Republicans ought to love Obama. He's doing everything they'd want to do."
I'd warn you to take off the blinkers, but it's likely already too late.
Dead Big Business ...
Freudian slip?
... that revolves around copying, distributing and publicizing for free other people's stuff.
FTFY.
it'll be as easy as googling thepiratebay
Only until some movie studio sends Google a notice of claimed infringement ...
Here's an idea. Google "search engine". Google's not the only one out there. Now the MafiAA has to play whackamole with search engines too. Last I heard, there are still gopher servers running out there. They'll have to slap them into line too. What else?
... they're quickly running out of countries that'll give them a DNS address.
Are they? I haven't seen that. Yeah, they lose domains fairly quickly often, but they're pretty nimble and appear well capable of staying five or so steps ahead of their pursuers.
Yes, there will be entirely different solutions found ...
Such as, ignoring the MafiAA controlled (DHS/ICE) DNS servers?
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." -- John Gilmore
It's simply a bunch of machines and lines. What it does or does not depends entirely on human will, and whose will be exercised.
Without us (all of us humans out here using it), that would be correct. You ignore that fact, as do the authorities. If all the torrent trackers and search engines pointing to infringing material were magically shutdown, there'd still be sneakernet. How're you going to stop Samizdat? Even the Soviets couldn't.
Right now, it's not ours.
Yes it is, else TPB would have ceased to exist. It would have disappeared long ago.
What I think is amazing is that all this kafuffle about TPB is over a site that points to stuff. It hosts nothing but links. All of TPB reportedly can fit on a USB key. Yet nation after nation expends vast amounts of energy, time, and resources chasing them from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, no closer to catching or stopping them now than they were a decade ago. All because of copyright enforcement.
Meanwhile, anything that TPB offers can be found via almost any search engine. It's a strange, strange world.
I'd like someone to do a study showing how many domain changes TPB has churned through so far over time vs. the number of possibilities still open to them. I wonder how many centuries this game of cat and mouse (or whackamole) can go on, and we haven't even barely started widely implemented (ie.) OpenNic adoption.
Personally, I boycott. I sure do love to watch this show though.
"Hellboy!" (apologies to Ron Perlman & Co.).