Listen, buddy, it's way past the point of 'find another job'.
This type of Orwellian crap comes directly from the same people who run the same banks that ran our economy into the ground, and who literally rob from the rest of us in order to support their stupid police-state bullshit.
Ten years ago, when the big banks started requiring fingerprints for everything, I might have said the same thing, "find another bank". In fact, that's what I did. Let me tell you what I got out of it: jack-fucking-shit.
Banks that aren't backed by the legal fraud of the Federal Reserve system don't get to print money out of thin air. They don't get to hand out million-dollar mortgages to illegal immigrants with no incomes. They don't get to fund companies and work-study jobs that have no chance of ever turning a profit.
They don't get to do any of those things because they have to operate within the laws and within economic reality and can't rob savers and taxpayers at every fucking opportunity.
So, don't tell the rest of us to 'find another job' as though we live in some type of free-market meritocracy that respects property rights or anything else for that matter.
Because, as far as I'm concerned, those who can't manage to stand up for others when their rights are being trampled can just find another fucking country at this point.
Health insurers require blood samples these days prior to coverage. That contains more than enough of your DNA for any purpose. If the majority of greedy, ignorant, short-sighted Americans had their way, health insurance and these types of privacy violations would have been already forced on the rest of us by now.
It's because production of those foods has been automated, industrialized. It's easier to subsist on twinkies and microwave dinners and fast food than to work in the fields picking vegetables. Humans have not yet evolved to take full advantage of the types of industrially-produced foods available. Hopefully we work to automate the production of healthier alternatives before that happens.
For some reason, and I still do not understand exactly why, people tend to re-invent things. Once you have seen this happen a few times, you don't tend to be impressed with every latest doo-dad.
As for the reason, there are lots of factors. But the ultimate factor is that nothing is really permanent, certainly not humans but not even ideas. Communication and education have high costs. Information storage degrades, in human memory and in physical forms. Even interpretation of long-stored information is a challenge. There are all sorts of incentives not to share innovation, both inherent and by design of various political and economic systems.
If you're being sold a better video player or a better cheeseburger, it might actually be better for you. But it is almost as likely to be worse. It may not even be better for the person who created it. It may just be newer instead of better. Progress is not a given, and the vast majority of people ("consumers") tend to be uncritical automatons.
So, what would you say if this giant catalog of your preferences said that you want to steal from your bank, because you missed a credit card payment once? What if it says that you want to cost your health insurer money, because your medical history shows that you have had more illnesses than average? Or that you want to be a drag on your employer, because your DNA profile indicates that you don't have the genes to perform as well as your peers. What if it said that you want to kill people, because you signed up for military service to defend your country, or you were drafted? What if it said that you have mental health issues, because you saw a marriage counselor or went to a psychiatrist when you had trouble sleeping?
If the information in those catalogs were true and accurate and complete descriptions of you, then you might have a point. You might want to live in a world in which you had better health insurance or an easier job, or a more subservient spouse, or lived in a safer neighborhood or a padded room.
But what if they weren't?
What if they were mistaken? What if they were in error? What if they were downright lies?
And what if you never even knew they existed, and never had access to view or correct any of them?
I would mod you up, but I'll just agree. My advice is to re-evaluate the reason for using virtual servers, consolidate, eliminate unnecessary hardware, and optimize for power usage. Then use the extra rack space for more UPS. Two minutes of standby means that you are seriously pushing your resources, or need to replace your batteries at least.
No mention of who the admin is, or whether there even is one. But I would take a hard look in that direction as well.
Defendant materially violated (3) by distributing said copies from material violation of (1) through a transfer of ownership.
I believe the lack of "material" violation is the issue here.
"Copies" are material objects... in which a work is fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.
(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
I got a pretty high score on the drunken-LSAT too.
Right. This has little to do with Texas wielding undue influence. It has to do with Texas being one of the only large states in the union that is not completely bankrupt, and other states having to benefit from the economies of scale of Texas' textbook purchases.
Instead of whining, opponents should be asking themselves "why is teaching creationism more profitable than teaching science?"
Step two is to take all the aid from responsible countries with sustainable populations and make it contingent upon voluntary regulation.
Of course, steps one and two should have been done thirty years ago. So, at this point, step two is probably more like "wait to get attacked and then decimate overpopulated countries at random", also known as the Bush Doctrine.
Religion, perhaps. But religion without the social component is mere spirituality. And it seems that many religious-types tend to fall back on spirituality when faced with the failure of religious doctrine to achieve group benefit, such as in the face of scientific progress. The evolutionary strategy is to keep the essential component of religion (spirituality) while fitting into the more successful competing group (science). The result is pseudoscience, mysticism, scientology, etc..
I've seen lots of people repeat this. And it seems plausible. But is it really the case? Is there even a single comprehensive study to back it up, that excludes environmental factors and fertility rates?
"Random" is the approach that western legal institutions will prefer. They have mostly failed to completely consider the issue, and are dominated by "egalitarian", wealth-redistributing leftists. I have sat in on presentations given by legal consultants to local government bodies, advocating that merit-based reward systems should be replaced with random lotteries. The establishment solution will not be the end of government picking winners, but the (even worse) outcome of government picking winners at random.
But the fact is that finite resource consumption is not a right. Employment is not a right. Reproduction beyond replacement is not a right. And institutional slavery and servitude are abominable. The world's very real economic and demographic problems will never be solved until these basic facts are realized.
You haven't really considered exactly how much energy it requires to recycle something like brass or irony-aluminum, or silver or copper that has been scattered to the wind via cloud seeding or pool ionizers.
Regardless, the world is in an absolute energy crisis. That's no solution.
and still I can "beam" them arbitrary amounts of energy
Not arbitrary amounts. Not more than the amount of entangled particles they have already been provided with. If you read the actual paper, which is entitled "Energy-Entanglement Relation for Quantum Energy Teleportation", it is clear that the amount of energy which can be "transmitted" is limited by the consumption of entanglement.
So an entangled system is like two ice cube trays, one on top of another, in a freezer. When you take them out, there is exactly enough energy to freeze half of the total ice cubes. You separate them, and half of the ice cubes in each tray are randomly frozen while the other half are thawed. The corresponding ice cubes in the other tray are oppositely thawed and frozen. But you don't know which is which without measuring and disturbing the system.
You then take each ice cube tray to opposite ends of the universe. When you measure one of the trays to find which ice cubes are frozen, you are adding heat (energy) to that ice cube tray. By learning which ice cubes are frozen in this tray, this tells you which ice cubes are unfrozen in the other tray. You can then transmit this information to the person with the other ice cube tray, who can carefully extract energy from only the thawed ice cubes in the tray.
You add energy at one place and extract it from another, but in reality the energy was already there and all you have transmitted is the knowledge of exactly how to make use of it.
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Listen, buddy, it's way past the point of 'find another job'.
This type of Orwellian crap comes directly from the same people who run the same banks that ran our economy into the ground, and who literally rob from the rest of us in order to support their stupid police-state bullshit.
Ten years ago, when the big banks started requiring fingerprints for everything, I might have said the same thing, "find another bank". In fact, that's what I did. Let me tell you what I got out of it: jack-fucking-shit.
Banks that aren't backed by the legal fraud of the Federal Reserve system don't get to print money out of thin air. They don't get to hand out million-dollar mortgages to illegal immigrants with no incomes. They don't get to fund companies and work-study jobs that have no chance of ever turning a profit.
They don't get to do any of those things because they have to operate within the laws and within economic reality and can't rob savers and taxpayers at every fucking opportunity.
So, don't tell the rest of us to 'find another job' as though we live in some type of free-market meritocracy that respects property rights or anything else for that matter.
Because, as far as I'm concerned, those who can't manage to stand up for others when their rights are being trampled can just find another fucking country at this point.
Really.. you had to pledge loyalty to the mayor? Is this in case of attack by a neighboring city-state?
Health insurers require blood samples these days prior to coverage. That contains more than enough of your DNA for any purpose. If the majority of greedy, ignorant, short-sighted Americans had their way, health insurance and these types of privacy violations would have been already forced on the rest of us by now.
A city that's powered by it's own sense of self-satisfaction.
It's because production of those foods has been automated, industrialized. It's easier to subsist on twinkies and microwave dinners and fast food than to work in the fields picking vegetables. Humans have not yet evolved to take full advantage of the types of industrially-produced foods available. Hopefully we work to automate the production of healthier alternatives before that happens.
For some reason, and I still do not understand exactly why, people tend to re-invent things. Once you have seen this happen a few times, you don't tend to be impressed with every latest doo-dad.
As for the reason, there are lots of factors. But the ultimate factor is that nothing is really permanent, certainly not humans but not even ideas. Communication and education have high costs. Information storage degrades, in human memory and in physical forms. Even interpretation of long-stored information is a challenge. There are all sorts of incentives not to share innovation, both inherent and by design of various political and economic systems.
If you're being sold a better video player or a better cheeseburger, it might actually be better for you. But it is almost as likely to be worse. It may not even be better for the person who created it. It may just be newer instead of better. Progress is not a given, and the vast majority of people ("consumers") tend to be uncritical automatons.
So, what would you say if this giant catalog of your preferences said that you want to steal from your bank, because you missed a credit card payment once? What if it says that you want to cost your health insurer money, because your medical history shows that you have had more illnesses than average? Or that you want to be a drag on your employer, because your DNA profile indicates that you don't have the genes to perform as well as your peers. What if it said that you want to kill people, because you signed up for military service to defend your country, or you were drafted? What if it said that you have mental health issues, because you saw a marriage counselor or went to a psychiatrist when you had trouble sleeping?
If the information in those catalogs were true and accurate and complete descriptions of you, then you might have a point. You might want to live in a world in which you had better health insurance or an easier job, or a more subservient spouse, or lived in a safer neighborhood or a padded room.
But what if they weren't?
What if they were mistaken? What if they were in error? What if they were downright lies?
And what if you never even knew they existed, and never had access to view or correct any of them?
Would that still be a good thing?
Wasn't it John Adams who said:
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to make fart lighting and Rick-roll videos."
I would mod you up, but I'll just agree. My advice is to re-evaluate the reason for using virtual servers, consolidate, eliminate unnecessary hardware, and optimize for power usage. Then use the extra rack space for more UPS. Two minutes of standby means that you are seriously pushing your resources, or need to replace your batteries at least.
No mention of who the admin is, or whether there even is one. But I would take a hard look in that direction as well.
Defendant materially violated (3) by distributing said copies from material violation of (1) through a transfer of ownership.
I believe the lack of "material" violation is the issue here.
"Copies" are material objects... in which a work is fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.
(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
I got a pretty high score on the drunken-LSAT too.
At my job at Microsoft, we were in the support end of the core os group.
Windows doesn't really have find and grep, but it does have "dir /s /b [pattern]" and "findstr /sipc:"[pattern]""
When I joined Microsoft, I hadn't used any version of Windows at all for any reason other than playing games.
I did almost all of my programming at Microsoft in notepad.exe
it took me about a month before I understood that my entire group would be replaced by a few scripts in the Open Source world.
Dear lord, this is the most hilarious thing ever posted to /.
Perl is like the matrix. At a certain point, after you've stared at it long enough, it all just makes sense.
Right. This has little to do with Texas wielding undue influence. It has to do with Texas being one of the only large states in the union that is not completely bankrupt, and other states having to benefit from the economies of scale of Texas' textbook purchases.
Instead of whining, opponents should be asking themselves "why is teaching creationism more profitable than teaching science?"
We could also just close our borders
That's step one.
Step two is to take all the aid from responsible countries with sustainable populations and make it contingent upon voluntary regulation.
Of course, steps one and two should have been done thirty years ago. So, at this point, step two is probably more like "wait to get attacked and then decimate overpopulated countries at random", also known as the Bush Doctrine.
No one has ever argued that the Constitution can't be amended.
The problem is that the Constitution is simply ignored.
Can we make sure that the rest of the world will not simply outbreed any of our successes?
Yes, we can. And we should start soon.
Religion, perhaps. But religion without the social component is mere spirituality. And it seems that many religious-types tend to fall back on spirituality when faced with the failure of religious doctrine to achieve group benefit, such as in the face of scientific progress. The evolutionary strategy is to keep the essential component of religion (spirituality) while fitting into the more successful competing group (science). The result is pseudoscience, mysticism, scientology, etc..
I've seen lots of people repeat this. And it seems plausible. But is it really the case? Is there even a single comprehensive study to back it up, that excludes environmental factors and fertility rates?
"Random" is the approach that western legal institutions will prefer. They have mostly failed to completely consider the issue, and are dominated by "egalitarian", wealth-redistributing leftists. I have sat in on presentations given by legal consultants to local government bodies, advocating that merit-based reward systems should be replaced with random lotteries. The establishment solution will not be the end of government picking winners, but the (even worse) outcome of government picking winners at random.
But the fact is that finite resource consumption is not a right. Employment is not a right. Reproduction beyond replacement is not a right. And institutional slavery and servitude are abominable. The world's very real economic and demographic problems will never be solved until these basic facts are realized.
All it takes is energy
You haven't really considered exactly how much energy it requires to recycle something like brass or irony-aluminum, or silver or copper that has been scattered to the wind via cloud seeding or pool ionizers.
Regardless, the world is in an absolute energy crisis. That's no solution.
and still I can "beam" them arbitrary amounts of energy
Not arbitrary amounts. Not more than the amount of entangled particles they have already been provided with. If you read the actual paper, which is entitled "Energy-Entanglement Relation for Quantum Energy Teleportation", it is clear that the amount of energy which can be "transmitted" is limited by the consumption of entanglement.
Measurement requires energy. You will not beat the odds and get a magical return from randomness.
Is one of them a Prius?
So an entangled system is like two ice cube trays, one on top of another, in a freezer. When you take them out, there is exactly enough energy to freeze half of the total ice cubes. You separate them, and half of the ice cubes in each tray are randomly frozen while the other half are thawed. The corresponding ice cubes in the other tray are oppositely thawed and frozen. But you don't know which is which without measuring and disturbing the system.
You then take each ice cube tray to opposite ends of the universe. When you measure one of the trays to find which ice cubes are frozen, you are adding heat (energy) to that ice cube tray. By learning which ice cubes are frozen in this tray, this tells you which ice cubes are unfrozen in the other tray. You can then transmit this information to the person with the other ice cube tray, who can carefully extract energy from only the thawed ice cubes in the tray.
You add energy at one place and extract it from another, but in reality the energy was already there and all you have transmitted is the knowledge of exactly how to make use of it.
You set the bits by hand, with a magnet?