Umm Bill Gates bought up a huge amount of the digital copyrights for a number of painting collections. Which means that any digital reproduction, public/private, profit/nonprofit, would have to be blessed by Willy Gates. So unless he had a humanitarian motivation for this anything like these projects will be missing vital parts of history.
BTW. I remember a story about a Japanese businessman who owned at least 2 Van Gough's painting. He was planning to be cremated with them. Ah the joys of un-restrained capitalism.
BIG problem with terraforming mars. The core of the planet has cooled such that the magnetic fields that keep our atmosphere from being blown away from solar winds doesn't exist on Mars. Unless you could use solar energy to reheat the core (doubtful) any O2 you make will be blown away.
Life for the most part will have to be under geo-domes to protect you from the radiation and keep the O2 you'd be making around. Life was rough for the first colonist to the americas. It will be hellish for the Mars folk. Talk about cabin fever. Living under a dome(s) for the rest of your life. With only short walks out on the dead surface or buggy rides. Better bring lots of reading material.
Um no. If you download into the same directory you allow uploads into then you are right. But that is the users choice. But for us to assume that all users know all the ramifications of thier action/choices is a bunch of hoseshit.
I here by hold everyone responsible for every action they make. So if you buy gasoline you are co-author in the destruction of the environment and exploitation of peoples all over the world. In short you are worse than Hitler and the Nazi party ever were.
This points out the greater harm that goes on day to day to vastly more important thing and people. Corperations and popular media can waste time and energy over this but will gladly turn a blind eye to real issues.
By buying into the lies of these organizations you attack real people while ignoring the hugh crimes that go on. Who is holding back the rapid development of cleaner energy and better ways of living? The greedy corperations who only point of exsistance is the accumulation of more wealth to "win" the capitalist game. The government become thier pawns and we the all suffer in inumerable ways.
From what I understand of the people that died it was the ones that jumped from fear of the flames, while others that rode it down lived. In the film you see the ship doesn't fall from the sky but slowly drops (slowly compared to 9.8m/s/s) since the fire wasn't that intense the people inside weren't incinerated, hurt yes but not cooked. Panic from the flames made the others jump from too high and fell to thier death or seriously hurt themselves. And the reporter's description and emotion over what he was seeing really (along with it being live over the radio) added to the hype.
With the way corperations have people chasing that elusive "look" you'd be surprised what people will start demanding. Leaving our genetic makeup to the Lowest Common Denominator really seems kind of silly.
Thanks to western marketing we can see kids and adults in nations everywhere striving to reach that NikeVougeBuffBodyHighCheekBoneGQHottieSexPotLoveTh ing look. Sure how they choose to go for that look is varied (not as much a MOFO Nature though). Next time you leave the good ol US of A and drop in on a developing nation be sure to keep your eyes open for the images on the advertisments and TV. depending on where you are and how long and how strong these things have been bombarding the locals you'll see a change in what is considered the "Ideal".
Not to step on anyones toes but the skin color white is sold as the tip top of beauty. Ever watch a Manga flick? Kinda strange that the people in the stories (if they aren't demons or cyborgs or non-human) all look very anglo and not very Japanese.
Look at the homogony around you the next time you go for a drive. The term is Generica. Look at the cookie cutter houses, stores, clothing, fashion, and groups. Just a very good way to maket when you have narrower options and larger groups. Think of the nightmare for Mega Corp if every neighborhood in the US had a different like and dislike in such a varitey that they couldn't graph it properly. You'd see ad execs jumping out of windows, product managers taking up hardcore binges.
Ya your right. People aren't sheep. Bahh, bahhh, Bahahahahahahaaaaaaa....
So right you are. his points out a flaw in our system. If our courts were like others, where the loser in a case pays ALL the legal bills for BOTH sides, and if the lawyers weren't making a "comission" off the settlement we would be see a lot less unfounded lawsuits in our courts.
Now as you point out anyone with enough cash can threaten and intimidate anyone who doesn't have the cash to defend themselves. Really a sick and twisted "Justice" system if you ask me.
We need reforms in this system of ours, but how to go about it without the capital to create popular consensus is beyond me, and even with consesus it can be struck down in the courts (see medical marajuana in Calif which the People voted for was struck down by the courts).
Damm the loss of our civil rights! Ramming speed!!
Well said. The "advances" teh WTO wants to help spread will put smaller buisnesses at an even worse advantage. Small buisness put money into more hands than big corps. Big Corps are streamlined and have no "fat". The fat here is people. After a corperation has streamlined their processes (accounting, shipping, etc) the only other place they can cut into is labor. Which is you and me.
This global economy isn't acessable to the average Joe cuz he(we) don't have the capital to build the links. The "American Dream" moves farther and farther away from the majority. Sure if you happen to be in the position to get the glorious covented "STOCK OPTIONS" you have some chance to make it big. But for all the people who make it big how many are now holding stock that isn't worth the paper it printed on? Funny you don't hear these stories from the same press that demonized the protesters by not strictly reporting the truth that it was a small group of militants that caused the damage. We in the US are not used to seeing riots for many reasons (BAHH, BAHH). If the majority of the protesters had rioted it would have been VERY ugly compared to the broken windows and spray paint (oooo broken windows!). Think more along the lines of dead rioters and dead police officers, cars set on fire, petrol bombs, and gun fire.
I find it refreshing to step into a forum like/. or www.wsws.org to get a contrast from say cnn.com or nytimes.com. The truth lies some where in the middle. It use to be de facto that each city in the US had two main papers. One that was conservative/right wing and the other liberal/left wing. Smart people would buy both, read them, and know the truth was some where in the middle. Now we have only the middle but without any substance.
Well I just bought a turntable after 8+ years. I have a record collection that would cost too much to buy on CD and many couldn't be found on CD. You know what? They sound great. I bought a very good high output needle. Sure some of the older records that I didn't take good care of have issues but the 12 inch 45 rpm cuts sound AWSOME. Very full and detailed. My old DEVO albums, Q and A for example, are a joy to listen to.
For the majority of people the difference that 16/44.1 vs 24/96 won't mean a thing. 24/96 is good for studios to create the best master recordings and capture the smallest detail and then mix down to 16/44.1.
Don't believe the hype. The quality of a recording comes from the TALENT that is there in both the artist and the sound tech. Peter Gabrial's albums are wonderful examples of just awsome talent and masterful mixing. This was late 70 early 80 all analog.
Tech is good but it will never replace talent. Everyone seems to forget the law of diminishing returns. So you double the sample rate and add eight bits to the data (the latter is more important) but what you get back is much larger sound files but performance that can only be measured by machines or people who are machines in disguise (just kidding).
Ah we bask in the glow of our technological triumph. Firmly convinced the road to this place was paved with the best of human intellect. But don't look too closely at the road for you'll see the faces and the lives that helped build that road. Not by their choice, nor will they receive credit for the sacrifices they made. To acknowledge the sacrifice is to look straight at the inhumanity that built and sustains our technology.
These over populated less worthy areas you all speak of with double face pity/loathing do not freely give their wealth to us but at the end of a gun. Africa, India, Latin America, and the Pacific Islands have the resources raped by corrupt governments influenced by the monies of wealthy, greedy nations and corporations. If we had to pay a FAIR price for the resources that are taken from these areas our GREAT wealth wouldn't be as great, but the lives of the vast majority of the people in these areas would be profoundly better.
We speak democracy while supporting dictators of the same caliber as Hitler. We speak of Peace while arming the world for small scale "limited" wars that leave the regions unstable and easily exploited.
Yes it is easy to turn our face away from this and look to the sky for answers (as our ancestors did when they prayed to the gods to save them). Oh we have come a long way. Grand visions that would make Alexander the Great blush.
The benefits of space exploration will be added up by the priests of technology and used to help divert our attention away from the COST to humanity. Oh this is only $20 billion dollars, which must be extracted at a high price from our earth. Yes certain resources are limited and we need to think more before we expend them.
How easy it is to sip you latte and ponder great things when you aren't starving or being denied freedom to try and make life better for your children. No these masses are just that. Nameless masses we can dismiss with a wave of our hand. These masses do not have dreams, they have no potential. We get upset when it is suggested that a parent might have the right to decide not to support a child that would create a great burden on them. People sight the number of Steven Hawkins we might lose if every child with a abnormality was to be discounted. Yet we'll discount entire nations.
I'm sorry but I must say F*CK YOU! To people with this mentality. You two faced SH*TS.
The main gripe is that they are charging for the service. If it was free of charge then it would be free and clear "true" knowledge share. Just another corp making a buck. If your frat or dorm charged money for you to look at the past notes, and exams that they had on file you can bet that if the school knew about it they'd be shut down. The profs probably don't like not getting paid but also they don't like seeing an organization other than thier own getting money for the knowledge. At least schools have scholarships. If corps take over our "education system" (training system as the case maybe) you'll be hard pressed to find them fitting scolastic betterment in on the bottom line.
There are better ways to get this info (the notes) out to people for free and still make a living. I'll leave this as an excercise to the reader.
Assuming that they can create this thing and it come out with little defects. What is going to raise this thing? Most likely the elephant that hosted the embryo I guess. From what I know elephants are similar to human children that they require a lengthily period to grow up and learn much of their behavior from the parents.
So all we can really learn about the mammoth is some facts about it's physiology and maybe some instinctual behavior that is unique to the mammoth.
So even if the genetics are great we still won't know much more about the behavior of the mammoth.
We'd get more info about animal behavior from simpler animals. How about bringing back the giant dragonflies?
It's not that people don't see it. It's more like they feel powerless to do anything about it (which is exactly how the government wants you to feel). Since going to your elected "represenitive" is, more often than not (esp. when you don't have millions of $), about as effective as talking to a wall.
When the population is polled on the things they'd like to see the government be doing (cleaning up the environment, and protecting it, or spending more on education for an example) the government does exactly the opposite. Most of this can be linked to that least talked about "special interest group", big corperations.
As far as I'm concerned the govenment is in a state of treason against the people of the US. Who by the way own, and are what made this nation great. Our hands, backs, and minds are what make all the good things (and not so good things) in this country. Our tax dollars (which you and I contribute the lions share per dollar we make) fund so much of what creates the rich environment which allow big corperations to make the amount of money they do (more than ever in history) and when they are asked to pay their fair share, or treat us as human they get VERY indigent...
We have seperation of church and state. Now we need seperation of corperation and state. Corperations by their nature have no morals, only the bottom line. If these entities run our nation you can safely bet that our best interest will be nowhere on the political screen.
It took a revolution to get the church out of the state, I hope it isn't needed to do the same for corperations.
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BTW. I remember a story about a Japanese businessman who owned at least 2 Van Gough's painting. He was planning to be cremated with them. Ah the joys of un-restrained capitalism.
BIG problem with terraforming mars. The core of the planet has cooled such that the magnetic fields that keep our atmosphere from being blown away from solar winds doesn't exist on Mars. Unless you could use solar energy to reheat the core (doubtful) any O2 you make will be blown away.
Life for the most part will have to be under geo-domes to protect you from the radiation and keep the O2 you'd be making around. Life was rough for the first colonist to the americas. It will be hellish for the Mars folk. Talk about cabin fever. Living under a dome(s) for the rest of your life. With only short walks out on the dead surface or buggy rides. Better bring lots of reading material.
Um no. If you download into the same directory you allow uploads into then you are right. But that is the users choice. But for us to assume that all users know all the ramifications of thier action/choices is a bunch of hoseshit.
I here by hold everyone responsible for every action they make. So if you buy gasoline you are co-author in the destruction of the environment and exploitation of peoples all over the world. In short you are worse than Hitler and the Nazi party ever were.
This points out the greater harm that goes on day to day to vastly more important thing and people. Corperations and popular media can waste time and energy over this but will gladly turn a blind eye to real issues.
By buying into the lies of these organizations you attack real people while ignoring the hugh crimes that go on. Who is holding back the rapid development of cleaner energy and better ways of living? The greedy corperations who only point of exsistance is the accumulation of more wealth to "win" the capitalist game. The government become thier pawns and we the all suffer in inumerable ways.
DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE!
From what I understand of the people that died it was the ones that jumped from fear of the flames, while others that rode it down lived. In the film you see the ship doesn't fall from the sky but slowly drops (slowly compared to 9.8m/s/s) since the fire wasn't that intense the people inside weren't incinerated, hurt yes but not cooked. Panic from the flames made the others jump from too high and fell to thier death or seriously hurt themselves. And the reporter's description and emotion over what he was seeing really (along with it being live over the radio) added to the hype.
With the way corperations have people chasing that elusive "look" you'd be surprised what people will start demanding. Leaving our genetic makeup to the Lowest Common Denominator really seems kind of silly.
h ing look. Sure how they choose to go for that look is varied (not as much a MOFO Nature though). Next time you leave the good ol US of A and drop in on a developing nation be sure to keep your eyes open for the images on the advertisments and TV. depending on where you are and how long and how strong these things have been bombarding the locals you'll see a change in what is considered the "Ideal".
Thanks to western marketing we can see kids and adults in nations everywhere striving to reach that NikeVougeBuffBodyHighCheekBoneGQHottieSexPotLoveT
Not to step on anyones toes but the skin color white is sold as the tip top of beauty. Ever watch a Manga flick? Kinda strange that the people in the stories (if they aren't demons or cyborgs or non-human) all look very anglo and not very Japanese.
Look at the homogony around you the next time you go for a drive. The term is Generica. Look at the cookie cutter houses, stores, clothing, fashion, and groups. Just a very good way to maket when you have narrower options and larger groups. Think of the nightmare for Mega Corp if every neighborhood in the US had a different like and dislike in such a varitey that they couldn't graph it properly. You'd see ad execs jumping out of windows, product managers taking up hardcore binges.
Ya your right. People aren't sheep. Bahh, bahhh, Bahahahahahahaaaaaaa....
So right you are. his points out a flaw in our system. If our courts were like others, where the loser in a case pays ALL the legal bills for BOTH sides, and if the lawyers weren't making a "comission" off the settlement we would be see a lot less unfounded lawsuits in our courts.
Now as you point out anyone with enough cash can threaten and intimidate anyone who doesn't have the cash to defend themselves. Really a sick and twisted "Justice" system if you ask me.
We need reforms in this system of ours, but how to go about it without the capital to create popular consensus is beyond me, and even with consesus it can be struck down in the courts (see medical marajuana in Calif which the People voted for was struck down by the courts).
Damm the loss of our civil rights! Ramming speed!!
Well said. The "advances" teh WTO wants to help spread will put smaller buisnesses at an even worse advantage. Small buisness put money into more hands than big corps. Big Corps are streamlined and have no "fat". The fat here is people. After a corperation has streamlined their processes (accounting, shipping, etc) the only other place they can cut into is labor. Which is you and me.
/. or www.wsws.org to get a contrast from say cnn.com or nytimes.com. The truth lies some where in the middle. It use to be de facto that each city in the US had two main papers. One that was conservative/right wing and the other liberal/left wing. Smart people would buy both, read them, and know the truth was some where in the middle. Now we have only the middle but without any substance.
This global economy isn't acessable to the average Joe cuz he(we) don't have the capital to build the links. The "American Dream" moves farther and farther away from the majority. Sure if you happen to be in the position to get the glorious covented "STOCK OPTIONS" you have some chance to make it big. But for all the people who make it big how many are now holding stock that isn't worth the paper it printed on? Funny you don't hear these stories from the same press that demonized the protesters by not strictly reporting the truth that it was a small group of militants that caused the damage. We in the US are not used to seeing riots for many reasons (BAHH, BAHH). If the majority of the protesters had rioted it would have been VERY ugly compared to the broken windows and spray paint (oooo broken windows!). Think more along the lines of dead rioters and dead police officers, cars set on fire, petrol bombs, and gun fire.
I find it refreshing to step into a forum like
Well I just bought a turntable after 8+ years. I have a record collection that would cost too much to buy on CD and many couldn't be found on CD. You know what? They sound great. I bought a very good high output needle. Sure some of the older records that I didn't take good care of have issues but the 12 inch 45 rpm cuts sound AWSOME. Very full and detailed. My old DEVO albums, Q and A for example, are a joy to listen to.
For the majority of people the difference that 16/44.1 vs 24/96 won't mean a thing. 24/96 is good for studios to create the best master recordings and capture the smallest detail and then mix down to 16/44.1.
Don't believe the hype. The quality of a recording comes from the TALENT that is there in both the artist and the sound tech. Peter Gabrial's albums are wonderful examples of just awsome talent and masterful mixing. This was late 70 early 80 all analog.
Tech is good but it will never replace talent. Everyone seems to forget the law of diminishing returns. So you double the sample rate and add eight bits to the data (the latter is more important) but what you get back is much larger sound files but performance that can only be measured by machines or people who are machines in disguise (just kidding).
Ah we bask in the glow of our technological triumph. Firmly convinced the road to this place was paved with the best of human intellect. But don't look too closely at the road for you'll see the faces and the lives that helped build that road. Not by their choice, nor will they receive credit for the sacrifices they made. To acknowledge the sacrifice is to look straight at the inhumanity that built and sustains our technology.
These over populated less worthy areas you all speak of with double face pity/loathing do not freely give their wealth to us but at the end of a gun. Africa, India, Latin America, and the Pacific Islands have the resources raped by corrupt governments influenced by the monies of wealthy, greedy nations and corporations. If we had to pay a FAIR price for the resources that are taken from these areas our GREAT wealth wouldn't be as great, but the lives of the vast majority of the people in these areas would be profoundly better.
We speak democracy while supporting dictators of the same caliber as Hitler. We speak of Peace while arming the world for small scale "limited" wars that leave the regions unstable and easily exploited.
Yes it is easy to turn our face away from this and look to the sky for answers (as our ancestors did when they prayed to the gods to save them). Oh we have come a long way. Grand visions that would make Alexander the Great blush.
The benefits of space exploration will be added up by the priests of technology and used to help divert our attention away from the COST to humanity. Oh this is only $20 billion dollars, which must be extracted at a high price from our earth. Yes certain resources are limited and we need to think more before we expend them.
How easy it is to sip you latte and ponder great things when you aren't starving or being denied freedom to try and make life better for your children. No these masses are just that. Nameless masses we can dismiss with a wave of our hand. These masses do not have dreams, they have no potential. We get upset when it is suggested that a parent might have the right to decide not to support a child that would create a great burden on them. People sight the number of Steven Hawkins we might lose if every child with a abnormality was to be discounted. Yet we'll discount entire nations.
I'm sorry but I must say F*CK YOU! To people with this mentality. You two faced SH*TS.
The main gripe is that they are charging for the service. If it was free of charge then it would be free and clear "true" knowledge share. Just another corp making a buck. If your frat or dorm charged money for you to look at the past notes, and exams that they had on file you can bet that if the school knew about it they'd be shut down. The profs probably don't like not getting paid but also they don't like seeing an organization other than thier own getting money for the knowledge. At least schools have scholarships. If corps take over our "education system" (training system as the case maybe) you'll be hard pressed to find them fitting scolastic betterment in on the bottom line.
There are better ways to get this info (the notes) out to people for free and still make a living. I'll leave this as an excercise to the reader.
Assuming that they can create this thing and it come out with little defects. What is going to raise this thing? Most likely the elephant that hosted the embryo I guess. From what I know elephants are similar to human children that they require a lengthily period to grow up and learn much of their behavior from the parents.
So all we can really learn about the mammoth is some facts about it's physiology and maybe some instinctual behavior that is unique to the mammoth.
So even if the genetics are great we still won't know much more about the behavior of the mammoth.
We'd get more info about animal behavior from simpler animals. How about bringing back the giant dragonflies?
It's not that people don't see it. It's more like they feel powerless to do anything about it (which is exactly how the government wants you to feel). Since going to your elected "represenitive" is, more often than not (esp. when you don't have millions of $), about as effective as talking to a wall.
When the population is polled on the things they'd like to see the government be doing (cleaning up the environment, and protecting it, or spending more on education for an example) the government does exactly the opposite. Most of this can be linked to that least talked about "special interest group", big corperations.
As far as I'm concerned the govenment is in a state of treason against the people of the US. Who by the way own, and are what made this nation great. Our hands, backs, and minds are what make all the good things (and not so good things) in this country. Our tax dollars (which you and I contribute the lions share per dollar we make) fund so much of what creates the rich environment which allow big corperations to make the amount of money they do (more than ever in history) and when they are asked to pay their fair share, or treat us as human they get VERY indigent...
We have seperation of church and state. Now we need seperation of corperation and state. Corperations by their nature have no morals, only the bottom line. If these entities run our nation you can safely bet that our best interest will be nowhere on the political screen.
It took a revolution to get the church out of the state, I hope it isn't needed to do the same for corperations.
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Under Republican Man Exploits Man, Under Democrats It's Just The Opposite.