Me: I'll do it anyway. Try to stop me! You can't, because you don't believe in violence-enforced legal systems.
You can't be arrested today for saying you want to kick puppies. If you kick puppies, the State may exact retributive justice upon you. Some States also prevent the puppies' owner from defending the puppies, before or after the fact. The private law systems I've seen allow property owners to defend their properties. Individuals may use violence in self- or third-party defense. The 'not-State' just can't initiate it.
You: I want to kick puppies. Community: Go ahead and try it, see what happens.
Me: I'm actually my own community. In my private laws, that's allowed. So go pound sand.
That's roughly the same as today. If you want to kick puppies in your basement, it's not likely anybody would know or stop you.
Some alternate models provide for property to be owned jointly, requiring consent of the joint owners for each person to live there. A puppy-kicker may well lose such consent and be forced to move to another place where he'll be accepted.
Less flexibility means less Turing Tax. For example video encoder cores can do massive amounts of computation, yet they can only encode video - nothing else.
And a Turning machine makes sense when transistors are expensive. But what's the actual cost of adding an h.264 encoder to a hardware die today? I bet it's cheaper than the electricity cost for doing much encoding over the ownership time of the part.
I suppose DSP's, VMX, MMX, SSE, etc. can all be seen as ways this has held true over time as transistors have gotten cheaper. Heck, lots of modern CPU functions can approximate this trend to a certain extent.
At this point, it's a matter of deciding what can be done in a big enough volume to make enough of the customers happy enough to pay for it.
Back in the day I could buy an 80387 to make my 80386 better at math. I wonder if any of the existing chip designs allow plug-in logic close enough to cache to make them worthwhile. GPU's are nice, but out on the PCIe bus they have to bring their own computers with them.
States killed half a billion people in the 20th Century. So, in addition to the economic damage they wreak, that death-toll has to be included in the desire to keep them around.
That's not to argue for an unregulated society, but rather one in which the regulations are voluntarily accepted. Robert Murphy is one scholar who is working out systems of private laws, which may provide an alternative. Violent action is not initiated under his private law systems, but rather criminals are not protected by the State, so they tend to leave for other places that will have them (some of those places wind up looking like prisons, but they go there because they're not welcomed anywhere else). There are some pretty interesting videos on YouTube from a recent private law conference that was held in Central America (Costa Rica, maybe?) with other proposals.
Dubai commissioned a private law system, which seems to be working out pretty well so far.
I don't know for sure what the right solution is, but it's pretty obvious the current system is flawed and should be replaced with something better. This is what humans have always done. Who knows when it will be perfected, but Step 1 is always "identify the problems".
The idea that some people who claim to know best should be able to make and impose arbitrary rules upon everybody else and back those rules up with violence. The US Patent System is one example.
The rules of the US patent system were dreampt up by some central planners, and in this case were exploited by the corporations to the detriment of the progress of arts and science.
Unintended consequences, corruption, incompetence - the 'why' doesn't matter so much as the actual outcomes and the means by which the outcomes are achieved.
When you do the effort the buy a real card and mail it, you're not just doing the effort to show your friends what they are worth: you're also now requiring them to spend their valuable time sending you a thank you note via a similar medium.
Who sends a thank you card for a card?
I'm a greeting-card-hater myself, but nobody does this.
Said Eric Idle, "Up until Munchausen, I'd always been very smart about Terry Gilliam films. You don't ever be in them. Go and see them by all means - but to be in them, fucking madness!!!"
But, mostly if his comedy isn't a take off on his "this is me high on cocaine" riff then it falls flat. For example, that's why his King of the Moon performance works.
Skimmed the article - from what I've read elsewhere:
Gaddafi wanted to price oil in terms of gold and get all of Africa to do so as well. This threatened the petro dollar.
Libyans had a very high per-capita reserve of gold.
The same day as the US^H^H^H^H^H NATO started to attack, the 'rebels' set up a central bank and a national oil company.
The idea that the war was fought to protect rebels or civillians (see also: Syria, Bahrain) is sketchy. The idea that it was fought to protect the value of the US Dollar as the world reserve currency and maintain the primacy of central banks... well, we wish that weren't true.
I sure hope you're wrong; I bought an LED-backlit TV specifically for maximum longevity.
I did too - a 37" for $400. My last TV was a 27" purchased in 1993 for $730. On an inflation-adjusted basis if I get 5 years out of it the yearly cost will be about the same.
The TV repairman who used to fix my CRT does most of his business with flat panels and gave me the 5-year metric to work with. I bought the extended warranty for $20 to bump it from 1 yr to 3 yrs.
I'm not of the belief that the best computer language that will ever be invented has been invented.
So, onward, I say. Fail if you will, and we'll hopefully learn things from that failure. Succeed if you can, but the odds are against you, so you better be pretty sure you're learning from those who have failed before you.
The only hope of this gaining any legs is if the Republicans pick up this ball and run with it, but they won't do that either because they have just as many fingers in the till as the Democrats.
Right, so:
Had Dodd been a Republican, there would already be a call for a Special Prosecutor.
Is false.
There's one party with minor differences paraded out for the masses to choose from. Understanding this is key to understanding Washington.
interesting idea, but NASA is having a hard enough time sending up crew and supplies to ISS in LEO.... if they had to send them to LUNAR orbit, well good luck with that.
The ancient Soyuez designs will be superseded by SpaceX designs RSN.
One of the news articles from a few weeks ago cited an analyst familiar with the program who says that it did have a self-destruct, but it malfunctioned.
Perhaps since Iran reportedly forced it down with GPS spoofing the code for the automated return-to-base landing didn't have listener hooks for the self-destruct.
I don't know what TFS is on about - people in Iran have claimed they got the lat/long coordinates right but messed up the altitude so the thing landed hard, destroying the landing gear and bottom of the craft, so that's why they paraded it with the bottom covered.
If you have a consumer you don't need the closed loop.
I used to work at a medical center that would get 'city' water at about 55 degrees, run it first to the data center, it would warm up about two degrees, and deliver 57 degree water to the rest of the complex, which is a pretty big water consumer.
Some entrepreneur should come up with system to cool big data centers with city water, and make a way for the city to feel good about taking the returned water back into the supply pipes (some sort of safety monitoring plus cash, most likely).
Every government IT job like this I've ever seen has US citizenship required, not even green card required. How did this guy get in?
The Federal Reserve is as much of a government agency as Federal Express is. OK, Federal Express if the Chairman of the Board were chosen by shipping magnates by then officially appointed by POTUS.
Slashdot Mirror
There's much we can learn from the Swiss.
The inability to confirm whether "destroy" is British slang
It's not even foreign slang - I heard this on campus 20 years ago here. Then again, USA 1992 may we considered a dangerous foreign country by the DHS.
So why didn't the stupid Dem voters vote for him?
They were busy buying sneakers with flashing lights in them.
Me: I'll do it anyway. Try to stop me! You can't, because you don't believe in violence-enforced legal systems.
You can't be arrested today for saying you want to kick puppies. If you kick puppies, the State may exact retributive justice upon you. Some States also prevent the puppies' owner from defending the puppies, before or after the fact. The private law systems I've seen allow property owners to defend their properties. Individuals may use violence in self- or third-party defense. The 'not-State' just can't initiate it.
You: I want to kick puppies.
Community: Go ahead and try it, see what happens.
Me: I'm actually my own community. In my private laws, that's allowed. So go pound sand.
That's roughly the same as today. If you want to kick puppies in your basement, it's not likely anybody would know or stop you.
Some alternate models provide for property to be owned jointly, requiring consent of the joint owners for each person to live there. A puppy-kicker may well lose such consent and be forced to move to another place where he'll be accepted.
Less flexibility means less Turing Tax. For example video encoder cores can do massive amounts of computation, yet they can only encode video - nothing else.
And a Turning machine makes sense when transistors are expensive. But what's the actual cost of adding an h.264 encoder to a hardware die today? I bet it's cheaper than the electricity cost for doing much encoding over the ownership time of the part.
I suppose DSP's, VMX, MMX, SSE, etc. can all be seen as ways this has held true over time as transistors have gotten cheaper. Heck, lots of modern CPU functions can approximate this trend to a certain extent.
At this point, it's a matter of deciding what can be done in a big enough volume to make enough of the customers happy enough to pay for it.
Back in the day I could buy an 80387 to make my 80386 better at math. I wonder if any of the existing chip designs allow plug-in logic close enough to cache to make them worthwhile. GPU's are nice, but out on the PCIe bus they have to bring their own computers with them.
I'm assuming you mean something more moderate.
No, probably more radical.
States killed half a billion people in the 20th Century. So, in addition to the economic damage they wreak, that death-toll has to be included in the desire to keep them around.
That's not to argue for an unregulated society, but rather one in which the regulations are voluntarily accepted. Robert Murphy is one scholar who is working out systems of private laws, which may provide an alternative. Violent action is not initiated under his private law systems, but rather criminals are not protected by the State, so they tend to leave for other places that will have them (some of those places wind up looking like prisons, but they go there because they're not welcomed anywhere else). There are some pretty interesting videos on YouTube from a recent private law conference that was held in Central America (Costa Rica, maybe?) with other proposals.
Dubai commissioned a private law system, which seems to be working out pretty well so far.
I don't know for sure what the right solution is, but it's pretty obvious the current system is flawed and should be replaced with something better. This is what humans have always done. Who knows when it will be perfected, but Step 1 is always "identify the problems".
The idea that some people who claim to know best should be able to make and impose arbitrary rules upon everybody else and back those rules up with violence. The US Patent System is one example.
The rules of the US patent system were dreampt up by some central planners, and in this case were exploited by the corporations to the detriment of the progress of arts and science.
Unintended consequences, corruption, incompetence - the 'why' doesn't matter so much as the actual outcomes and the means by which the outcomes are achieved.
When you do the effort the buy a real card and mail it, you're not just doing the effort to show your friends what they are worth: you're also now requiring them to spend their valuable time sending you a thank you note via a similar medium.
Who sends a thank you card for a card?
I'm a greeting-card-hater myself, but nobody does this.
Good Morning Vietnam was a nice blend of both.
But, mostly if his comedy isn't a take off on his "this is me high on cocaine" riff then it falls flat. For example, that's why his King of the Moon performance works.
This is squarely an indictment of the USPTO and of the Congress.
Or if you go in for root-cause analysis, the State mechanism.
that awful group from Ireland
Hey, they weren't always so awful! I recently went to a party where Golden State was playing - their sound reminds me of U2 back in the day.
How am I supposed to build a webpage, when I have no clue what hyperlinked content will actually be available to the viewer? This is ridiculous.
Really, you're just discovering broken links in 2012?
So you say you don't like your government censoring ... have you tried turning it off and back on again yet?
Skimmed the article - from what I've read elsewhere:
Gaddafi wanted to price oil in terms of gold and get all of Africa to do so as well. This threatened the petro dollar.
Libyans had a very high per-capita reserve of gold.
The same day as the US^H^H^H^H^H NATO started to attack, the 'rebels' set up a central bank and a national oil company.
The idea that the war was fought to protect rebels or civillians (see also: Syria, Bahrain) is sketchy. The idea that it was fought to protect the value of the US Dollar as the world reserve currency and maintain the primacy of central banks ... well, we wish that weren't true.
I'm guessing konsole will get a lot more use with this crowd
I use konsole as an engine, but Yakuake runs my life.
You seem to be one of the rare people who uses a truck as a truck.
It's probably safe to assume that if a Slashdotter has a truck, it's a truck.
'96 Chevy K-1500 here - I plow snow, tow hay, and haul rock and cow shit with it.
Subaru Forester for the day job.
I sure hope you're wrong; I bought an LED-backlit TV specifically for maximum longevity.
I did too - a 37" for $400. My last TV was a 27" purchased in 1993 for $730. On an inflation-adjusted basis if I get 5 years out of it the yearly cost will be about the same.
The TV repairman who used to fix my CRT does most of his business with flat panels and gave me the 5-year metric to work with. I bought the extended warranty for $20 to bump it from 1 yr to 3 yrs.
Sucks for the folks who bought 120Hz TVs in an attempt to eliminate telecine judder; now they'll have to upgrade to 240Hz.
It's OK, TV's today don't usually last more than 5 years. Which is fine - they're quite nice and dirt cheap for their size and price.
I'm not of the belief that the best computer language that will ever be invented has been invented.
So, onward, I say. Fail if you will, and we'll hopefully learn things from that failure. Succeed if you can, but the odds are against you, so you better be pretty sure you're learning from those who have failed before you.
The only hope of this gaining any legs is if the Republicans pick up this ball and run with it, but they won't do that either because they have just as many fingers in the till as the Democrats.
Right, so:
Had Dodd been a Republican, there would already be a call for a Special Prosecutor.
Is false.
There's one party with minor differences paraded out for the masses to choose from. Understanding this is key to understanding Washington.
interesting idea, but NASA is having a hard enough time sending up crew and supplies to ISS in LEO.... if they had to send them to LUNAR orbit, well good luck with that.
The ancient Soyuez designs will be superseded by SpaceX designs RSN.
Oh well... seems like this one doesn't have any.
One of the news articles from a few weeks ago cited an analyst familiar with the program who says that it did have a self-destruct, but it malfunctioned.
Perhaps since Iran reportedly forced it down with GPS spoofing the code for the automated return-to-base landing didn't have listener hooks for the self-destruct.
I don't know what TFS is on about - people in Iran have claimed they got the lat/long coordinates right but messed up the altitude so the thing landed hard, destroying the landing gear and bottom of the craft, so that's why they paraded it with the bottom covered.
Disinformation is disinformative.
but this is definitely bigger risk than a chemical rocket.
You'd rather get showered in hydrazine than plutonium?
If you have a consumer you don't need the closed loop.
I used to work at a medical center that would get 'city' water at about 55 degrees, run it first to the data center, it would warm up about two degrees, and deliver 57 degree water to the rest of the complex, which is a pretty big water consumer.
Some entrepreneur should come up with system to cool big data centers with city water, and make a way for the city to feel good about taking the returned water back into the supply pipes (some sort of safety monitoring plus cash, most likely).
Every government IT job like this I've ever seen has US citizenship required, not even green card required. How did this guy get in?
The Federal Reserve is as much of a government agency as Federal Express is. OK, Federal Express if the Chairman of the Board were chosen by shipping magnates by then officially appointed by POTUS.