Uh, yeah, that's the point of the project - to build territory in orbit. So, apparently they want people to want to go there and then they'll impose taxes.
The entire point of the modern nation state is to run a farm where people are kept to provide tax money, like cattle for milk.
If there is competition, then there isn't a state - you only have a business running a concession. Like going to a resort.
If they need a state then they automatically want to impose some kind of monopoly within their jurisdiction, by force if necessary - that's just the polisci definition.
The true "space nutters" will be those who go to Space and then want to bring along the worst inventions of humanity (including states). We have communications and economics now - no need for hokey religions and ancient weapons.
Part of the problem is that small movies, such as many Netflix has snagged from places like Sundance, would be better distributed both at home and in theaters.
Right.
If they collude to face the theaters, it's anti-trust, but if they are the ones to take the first step, their films will get killed.
Baloney. The small films often "get killed" anyway. Put in a modicum of advertising (say, subway billboards) and implement a competent social media campaign, and if the audience exists they will find the film.
Hastings probably wants a Netflix exclusive, which might well get a film killed, but a simultaneous release on all the popular monetized platforms will do fine.
The big if's are if the film is any good and if the marketing and distribution are confident. The trick will be as soon as any of the three is bad, the other two will be assigned blame. So get it right already.
Probably best to start with a low-budget sequel to a film with an existing fanbase because creating demand out of the gate is going to be hard. "Bridget Jones's Baby" would have been a good one, for instance. But the studios stand to profit by cutting out the theatres, so there's a far incentive to take on some risk.
Tom Woods got one of these calls and decided to make an episode out of it. It's either hilarious or pathetic, depending on your frame of mind. These particular scammers wanted to be paid in Target cards. It's instructive, from multiple perspectives, to listen to their (successful) technique.
I heard an interview once with an Indian call center worker who was trained to treat Americans as if they were seven-year-old Indian children. I'm sure there are some/.'ers who can appreciate the way it feels to have to talk to an idiot who makes ten times your salary. Some of these call center workers probably feel the rubes deserve to be bilked out of their savings. That's no ethical position, but one we might recognize.
Once they figured out Tom was on to them, they called him an asshole, but the tone was definitely more like that one would use with a peer. It's obviously only economically efficient to talk to idiots when such scams are in play (which is why the Nigerian scams are purposely written to be so obvious - auto-prefiltering their marks).
No where did Comcast promise that streaming all your viewing at 4K is unlimited.
We have immature kids on here who always want everything for nothing.
I'm just sitting here like, "I can get unlimited 300Mbps service for under $200 a month?" Ever pay $1400/mo for a pair of bonded T1's? Like just a decade ago?
Oh, well, Bernie lost and is backing Wall Street and the War Pigs now, so we still have to pay for resources we use.
Sad to see what has to be a screwup by Apple cost the guy $$$.
That's just part of the risk of being an Apple developer. If they want to do something arbitrary or capricious and destroy your entire business, there's often nothing you can do about it.
They can even choose to compete with you and do the same thing. Call it anti-competitive or whatever, but anybody basing their business on the good will and fortunes of another business may get a temporary high but everybody knows there's going to be an end to that status at some point. Specialization / generalization is always a trade-off with risks and rewards.
Where's the Google page for this? I don't see it in the store or at/pixel.
I'm assuming it has no SD card slot, CDMA reception, or a battery that can be quickly removed for security, but I'd like to at least look. I'm really surprised it has no more RAM than my four year old phone, though.
So 200+ ships at billions of dollars each? Yeah, that's gonna happen.
The US spent more than that dropping bombs on the Middle East, not benefit was achieved by the effort, and almost nobody wanted it.
Imagine if all the people on Earth actually wanted something and we could effectively solve the coordination problem (coming soon to a blockchain near you)
There are a few options but all of them require high-jacking IoT devices.
If I were feeling more energetic I'd pull out some comments from here I left a decade ago talking about a guild of Internet engineers and a trust system where certified operators could send cryptographically-signed messages upstream to shut off attacking ports (or requests to do so - that's a local detail).
Yes, we're decentralized, and that's good, but we also need to cooperate.
When homeowners get their Internet shut off because their IoT is attacking and they have to call a local tech to diagnose the problem and pull out the offending light bulb before it's turned back on, suddenly everybody will demand secure light bulbs (except us 'luddites' who are still using dumb dishwashers because we know that complexity breaks).
Yep. A few years ago I got grilled by a (nice) guy in Israel about my certs, even though I had gotten all the answers right on their notary certification test. It was tougher than most "Green bar" certs are today. Which is how a competent CA works.
Yeah, I run Chromium without Flash and I can't play most YouTube video. I checked their HTML5 page and I've got everything but h.264 support and nuthin'. Not even Google likes Google's codecs.
This is known already. Because, you know, physics.
Physics ain't done, son. Lots of stuff is deemed impossible before the next theoretical breakthrough.
When we have a fully-working model of the universe, then we can declare it impossible. Until then, avoid being too certain. The history is science is littered with fools who made certain declarations based on current, incomplete theory.
Based on what we know to date, FTL travel appears to be impossible.
"The police told me they'd be back if it happened again." For what crime? Is it normal for police in Canada to threaten to invade an innocent couple's home for doing something legal?
Tor is a thorn in the side of despotic regimes. They will harass anybody who runs an exit node. Best case, they break down a door and find some pot in an ash tray, then lock this couple up for a few years. It's good for the police union, good for the prison industry, and good for the black ops programs funding their budget with drug smuggling.
Win-win-win (unless you're a subject of the regime).
his country is full of extremely stupid, gullible, and ridiculously-overarmed people, and a small subset of whom probably thinks it would be a good thing to bring harm to the First Lady.
Meanwhile, Jefferson often complained about the never-ending parade of people who walked into his office at all hours of the day to complain.
But he didn't have a Department of Education. Or bombing campaigns in sixteen countries (the Barbary Pirates not withstanding).
There's no possibility that aliens capable of FTL would find us remotely interesting. Once you get to that technology, energy and resource problems either have been solved, or become very easily solvable.
And if they care at all about things like us, they already have had probes in our system for eons, by all averages. It would be absurd to think they can't build self-replicating probes at our level of technology plus a few hundred years as a minimum. Once you have that, if you care about the galaxy, you map it.
There's nothing we can tell them that they don't already know. They haven't destroyed us, so they won't.
I do not see them giving it away for free when it is an advertised premium feature in another app.
You know, this was the #1 requested feature for the YouTube app for years and then Google finally implemented it but made it a $120/yr option and threatened lawsuits against apps that provided the capability already if they didn't withdraw from the market. It was probably the most Evil thing I've ever seen Google do.
XPosed Framework has a module that remedies this problem. I would have been glad to pay $10 for an app, but $500 over the expected life of my phone? That's more than the phone costs. I don't want to listen to their music catalog - just some old lectures while I'm doing housework.
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but unless you visit their sovereign territory
Uh, yeah, that's the point of the project - to build territory in orbit. So, apparently they want people to want to go there and then they'll impose taxes.
The entire point of the modern nation state is to run a farm where people are kept to provide tax money, like cattle for milk.
If there is competition, then there isn't a state - you only have a business running a concession. Like going to a resort.
If they need a state then they automatically want to impose some kind of monopoly within their jurisdiction, by force if necessary - that's just the polisci definition.
The true "space nutters" will be those who go to Space and then want to bring along the worst inventions of humanity (including states). We have communications and economics now - no need for hokey religions and ancient weapons.
Part of the problem is that small movies, such as many Netflix has snagged from places like Sundance, would be better distributed both at home and in theaters.
Right.
If they collude to face the theaters, it's anti-trust, but if they are the ones to take the first step, their films will get killed.
Baloney. The small films often "get killed" anyway. Put in a modicum of advertising (say, subway billboards) and implement a competent social media campaign, and if the audience exists they will find the film.
Hastings probably wants a Netflix exclusive, which might well get a film killed, but a simultaneous release on all the popular monetized platforms will do fine.
The big if's are if the film is any good and if the marketing and distribution are confident. The trick will be as soon as any of the three is bad, the other two will be assigned blame. So get it right already.
Probably best to start with a low-budget sequel to a film with an existing fanbase because creating demand out of the gate is going to be hard. "Bridget Jones's Baby" would have been a good one, for instance. But the studios stand to profit by cutting out the theatres, so there's a far incentive to take on some risk.
Tom Woods got one of these calls and decided to make an episode out of it. It's either hilarious or pathetic, depending on your frame of mind. These particular scammers wanted to be paid in Target cards. It's instructive, from multiple perspectives, to listen to their (successful) technique.
I heard an interview once with an Indian call center worker who was trained to treat Americans as if they were seven-year-old Indian children. I'm sure there are some /.'ers who can appreciate the way it feels to have to talk to an idiot who makes ten times your salary. Some of these call center workers probably feel the rubes deserve to be bilked out of their savings. That's no ethical position, but one we might recognize.
Once they figured out Tom was on to them, they called him an asshole, but the tone was definitely more like that one would use with a peer. It's obviously only economically efficient to talk to idiots when such scams are in play (which is why the Nigerian scams are purposely written to be so obvious - auto-prefiltering their marks).
Why? Considering all the voters who back either of the two presidential candidates should kill your faith, not simply wither it.
They've got you too, apparently.
No where did Comcast promise that streaming all your viewing at 4K is unlimited.
We have immature kids on here who always want everything for nothing.
I'm just sitting here like, "I can get unlimited 300Mbps service for under $200 a month?" Ever pay $1400/mo for a pair of bonded T1's? Like just a decade ago?
Oh, well, Bernie lost and is backing Wall Street and the War Pigs now, so we still have to pay for resources we use.
Sad to see what has to be a screwup by Apple cost the guy $$$.
That's just part of the risk of being an Apple developer. If they want to do something arbitrary or capricious and destroy your entire business, there's often nothing you can do about it.
They can even choose to compete with you and do the same thing. Call it anti-competitive or whatever, but anybody basing their business on the good will and fortunes of another business may get a temporary high but everybody knows there's going to be an end to that status at some point. Specialization / generalization is always a trade-off with risks and rewards.
Just because the universe doesn't fit into your limited imagination
It's not a feeling of awkwardness, there's a measurable noise problem below 10^-27. Check the data on the Polish gravity wave experiment.
... is to get a cut of the action on what people are doing already.
How are they going to do that?
Where's the Google page for this? I don't see it in the store or at /pixel.
I'm assuming it has no SD card slot, CDMA reception, or a battery that can be quickly removed for security, but I'd like to at least look. I'm really surprised it has no more RAM than my four year old phone, though.
How deep, baby? Tell me how deep your learning goes!
(did yahoo! classify this? will they tell us in two years?)
Then one of these two parties self-destructs.
Why not both?
But don't worry - the CIA hasn't lost an election since '76.
Reported to ICANN for an invalid WHOIS.
Good form, but ICANN cares about doing a good job about as much as the FBI.
This. There is no fucking AI. I'm sick of hearing news about it every god damned day when it doesn't even exist.
Maybe I doesn't exist either.
So 200+ ships at billions of dollars each? Yeah, that's gonna happen.
The US spent more than that dropping bombs on the Middle East, not benefit was achieved by the effort, and almost nobody wanted it.
Imagine if all the people on Earth actually wanted something and we could effectively solve the coordination problem (coming soon to a blockchain near you)
There are a few options but all of them require high-jacking IoT devices.
If I were feeling more energetic I'd pull out some comments from here I left a decade ago talking about a guild of Internet engineers and a trust system where certified operators could send cryptographically-signed messages upstream to shut off attacking ports (or requests to do so - that's a local detail).
Yes, we're decentralized, and that's good, but we also need to cooperate.
When homeowners get their Internet shut off because their IoT is attacking and they have to call a local tech to diagnose the problem and pull out the offending light bulb before it's turned back on, suddenly everybody will demand secure light bulbs (except us 'luddites' who are still using dumb dishwashers because we know that complexity breaks).
Seriously, if I was the troll, I'd feel on top of the world. This must be the apex of trolldom. Ultimate validation.
Penultimate. When they take the ADL logo and put a 'stache on it and start trolling Facebook with it, then troll nirvana will have been achieved.
Yep. A few years ago I got grilled by a (nice) guy in Israel about my certs, even though I had gotten all the answers right on their notary certification test. It was tougher than most "Green bar" certs are today. Which is how a competent CA works.
RIP old Startcomm.
Yeah, I run Chromium without Flash and I can't play most YouTube video. I checked their HTML5 page and I've got everything but h.264 support and nuthin'. Not even Google likes Google's codecs.
Imagine if you'd just finished up a year's worth of uploading on your DSL line, and now you have a month to find another service.
I knew it was too good to be true (and I suspect Amazon did too...) but ordinary prosumers don't know what enterprise storage costs.
This is known already. Because, you know, physics.
Physics ain't done, son. Lots of stuff is deemed impossible before the next theoretical breakthrough.
When we have a fully-working model of the universe, then we can declare it impossible. Until then, avoid being too certain. The history is science is littered with fools who made certain declarations based on current, incomplete theory.
Based on what we know to date, FTL travel appears to be impossible.
"The police told me they'd be back if it happened again." For what crime? Is it normal for police in Canada to threaten to invade an innocent couple's home for doing something legal?
Tor is a thorn in the side of despotic regimes. They will harass anybody who runs an exit node. Best case, they break down a door and find some pot in an ash tray, then lock this couple up for a few years. It's good for the police union, good for the prison industry, and good for the black ops programs funding their budget with drug smuggling.
Win-win-win (unless you're a subject of the regime).
his country is full of extremely stupid, gullible, and ridiculously-overarmed people, and a small subset of whom probably thinks it would be a good thing to bring harm to the First Lady.
Meanwhile, Jefferson often complained about the never-ending parade of people who walked into his office at all hours of the day to complain.
But he didn't have a Department of Education. Or bombing campaigns in sixteen countries (the Barbary Pirates not withstanding).
There's no possibility that aliens capable of FTL would find us remotely interesting. Once you get to that technology, energy and resource problems either have been solved, or become very easily solvable.
And if they care at all about things like us, they already have had probes in our system for eons, by all averages. It would be absurd to think they can't build self-replicating probes at our level of technology plus a few hundred years as a minimum. Once you have that, if you care about the galaxy, you map it.
There's nothing we can tell them that they don't already know. They haven't destroyed us, so they won't.
I do not see them giving it away for free when it is an advertised premium feature in another app.
You know, this was the #1 requested feature for the YouTube app for years and then Google finally implemented it but made it a $120/yr option and threatened lawsuits against apps that provided the capability already if they didn't withdraw from the market. It was probably the most Evil thing I've ever seen Google do.
XPosed Framework has a module that remedies this problem. I would have been glad to pay $10 for an app, but $500 over the expected life of my phone? That's more than the phone costs. I don't want to listen to their music catalog - just some old lectures while I'm doing housework.
Why do I think that if he journalist impersonated an FBI agent, the DOJ's opinion would be very different?
Rules are for thee, not for me. Back to work, subject.