Two incidents of fraudlike behavior (including one of the idiocy of 'he'just a yoot') so is it surprising he would go into business distributing copyrighted works without paying the authors?
Ironic -- Hollywood is in southern CA so the execs could flee to Mexico if Tom Edison and his movie patents caught up with them.
Parents need education to do these things -- I work woth Indian colleagues who put their kids in advanced Saturday math classes. My parents would never have dreamed of doing that for me 30 uears ago. Dumped into a public school, their job was done -- after all, politicians and teachers say so! When not begging for more money to do more of whatever it is they do that's so awesome.
Someone mentioned AP, well, that's too late. This needs to go on in grade school onward. When I got to U-M, kids ran around bragging about AP credits, and I'm like what's an AP credit? If parents don't look, and teachers don't care, well...
Even this discussion is permeated with government-as-solution. Family emphasis on scholastics has been shown to be far and away the biggest factor in educational outcomes, so both parties argue from a false premise.
That's the actual end of Contact -- the aliens tell Ellie & Friends there are messages billions of digits out in transcendental numbers...things which could only be put there by an even higher power who created math and logic. It was what guided the aliens and inspired them to encode layers of messages for young civilizations.
I don't think these asshats realize what they're doing when they close something. I had about 200 hours of base construction with well over 4000 pieces placed (which is somewhat clumsy in their method).
Let's just shut down Minecraft, taking everybody's painstaking lands along with it.
It was making a small profit along with regular ongoing updates and releases. This was not some money pit.
It's nothing but spite on their part. Supposedly they re-used the servers to help with. guild wars ii to help the initial bulge without buying more, which would be redundant in a few months.
Pfizer found a family of fatasses with whistle-clear arteries, isolated the chemical that did it, spent $800 million through phase iii, and abandoned it when slightly more people on it died than on the placebo. Maybe people should be on it from youth, don't give up fools!
"Fix Obamacare site" -- Governmemt contracts are about extracting money. Oh, if you happen to do something worthwhile and amazng like land on the moon, ok, but that's not what it's about. IT's featherbedding as people struggle to do something.
Speaking of which, in the 1990s, prior to Al Gore finding his niche as Eco Savior/ManBearPig, he was leading a previous crusade that might have been called One Desktop With Internet Per Poor Family, to the applause of CEOs of companies like HP. This was before Obamafones.
You mean the companies which emoy everyone, and which produce the things we want them to produce so we can have things to buy?
Tax those more, passing the costs right back onto ourselves?
Well, it would be more honest -- at least we'd be paying our own way. But don't think for a microsecond it would be getting back at them nasty, worthless, scammin' rich.
I recall in the 1990s the Senate declining to send out a balanced budget amendment to the states. Robert Byrd stood there on the floor, literally with tears streaming down his face, decrying how the Will of the Majority would be thwarted by said amendment as he stood in its way.
Well, yes. Yes it would. You, sir, are neglecting the Will of Future Generations, and Their Right to Not Be Taxed Without Representation.
Note he's dead now, by political design, and future people have to deal with it, by design. He got to sling his power, we ate his words, and now pay for it. And our kids pay even more. Plus housing debt, and student loan debt, all of which is, or will be, heaved onto even further generations, as politicians assuage our egos and tell us we don't have to carry our own weight. Every fifth Slashdot article is student loan crisis, predicted yet nothing done, with implied destiny of government paying for it, i.e. future generations, in exchange for current votes for current power holders.
Did we get our money's worth from Byrd's 1990s borrowing, from their borrowing, which those politicians screamed was absolutely, god dammit necessary!!!!?!?!
Well, was it?
"Your failure to plan does not constitute an emergency on my part", can every nerd here quote. Well, this is that, writ large.
Much of the remaining 30% was things like defense and infrastructure -- this may be bloated, but in theory it benefitted fuure generations, so it was considered ethical to borrow from them to pay for it. But wealth transfer payments?
That is flat-out current generations refusing to carry their own weight.
By the way, taxing the rich won't cut it -- taxing 100% of the rich's income would gain you an additional $500 billion a year (assuming they continue to work for free, good luck with that and keeping their salaries pointlessly high). This is still hundreds of billions a year short.
No, every elected politician knows you have to tax the middle class to pay for the middle classess' wealth transfers (social security, whether retirement or disability).
And these politicians are cowards because they are a huge and motivated voting block.
No, we, the middle class, have to decide on an amendment to prevent ourselves from borrowing from our children. We won't, because we, and our politicians who we elect, are weak.
Cars should not become "data monsters", distracting drivers...for the next 10 years or so until they become robot driver cars.
This whine is a brief interstice between the olden days and the rest of the future. "I don't like buggy whips 'cause it's mean to horses!", screams an irrelevant goofball in 1902.
"When confronted with the accusation that, in fact, it was he who had stolen the Bitcoins, the owner of Mt. Gox confessed, stating, 'In my defense, that wad was only worth 59 cents at the time.' "
Of course, the cynical, which is to say, vastly overwhelming historical norm, there and in Europe, wherein regulation is meme pap to get useful idiots on your side while the real reason is to get kickbacks for the politicians, continues apace.
Keep arguing in the memespace; it's working as intended.
Merry Old England would have rounded up the Founding Fathers using "just metadata" (who called whom, and when) and therefore they would have forbidden its collection to government without a proper warrant.
The US concept of The People forming a government inherently distrusts those in power, so specifically grants limited powers. It's not a case of "well, WE will use it right!". The power itself is what's wrong.
"Before I vote on this here law," drawled the Boston polit...sorry hold on.
"Before I vote on this heah law," Kennedied the Boston politician, "I'm goin-guh to need to see some of these so-called 'up her skirt' photo-garaffs to make shua they are a vile as suggested. Good. Ok thank you. I will be busy studying them at home. Hold my calls."
As a percent of pre-expenses salary, yes. As a fraction of New York's post-expenses 56k modem, er, salary compared to Austin's 100k+, no.
What you just said is, after all, exactly what the study was trying to figure out. Hell, an Austineer could make several trips a year to NY and elsewhere to pick up cultural goodies like plays and still come out way ahead.
You say that in a context of police and prosecutors who deliberately abuse laws, pointing to words and technical violations, so they can pad their tough guy credentials?
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Two incidents of fraudlike behavior (including one of the idiocy of 'he'just a yoot') so is it surprising he would go into business distributing copyrighted works without paying the authors?
Ironic -- Hollywood is in southern CA so the execs could flee to Mexico if Tom Edison and his movie patents caught up with them.
> "Because, 'sophisticated criminals and terrorists.'"
When speaking in post-l33tspeak, one wouldn't put a comma between "because" and the unqualified phrase because stupid.
Parents need education to do these things -- I work woth Indian colleagues who put their kids in advanced Saturday math classes. My parents would never have dreamed of doing that for me 30 uears ago. Dumped into a public school, their job was done -- after all, politicians and teachers say so! When not begging for more money to do more of whatever it is they do that's so awesome.
Someone mentioned AP, well, that's too late. This needs to go on in grade school onward. When I got to U-M, kids ran around bragging about AP credits, and I'm like what's an AP credit? If parents don't look, and teachers don't care, well...
Even this discussion is permeated with government-as-solution. Family emphasis on scholastics has been shown to be far and away the biggest factor in educational outcomes, so both parties argue from a false premise.
The current micro usb is shit and fails after a few hundred cycles and the occasional bump.
The last thing I want is some politician locking me in to some similar BS desgn.
I would rather see mandated warranty repairs of same than this, and I wouldn't wanna see that, either.
Contact spoiler!!!!!
That's the actual end of Contact -- the aliens tell Ellie & Friends there are messages billions of digits out in transcendental numbers...things which could only be put there by an even higher power who created math and logic. It was what guided the aliens and inspired them to encode layers of messages for young civilizations.
If by "these days" you mean "all of human history and experience", then yes.
I don't think these asshats realize what they're doing when they close something. I had about 200 hours of base construction with well over 4000 pieces placed (which is somewhat clumsy in their method).
Let's just shut down Minecraft, taking everybody's painstaking lands along with it.
It was making a small profit along with regular ongoing updates and releases. This was not some money pit.
It's nothing but spite on their part. Supposedly they re-used the servers to help with. guild wars ii to help the initial bulge without buying more, which would be redundant in a few months.
Again, thanks asshats.
Pfizer found a family of fatasses with whistle-clear arteries, isolated the chemical that did it, spent $800 million through phase iii, and abandoned it when slightly more people on it died than on the placebo. Maybe people should be on it from youth, don't give up fools!
"Fix Obamacare site" -- Governmemt contracts are about extracting money. Oh, if you happen to do something worthwhile and amazng like land on the moon, ok, but that's not what it's about. IT's featherbedding as people struggle to do something.
Speaking of which, in the 1990s, prior to Al Gore finding his niche as Eco Savior/ManBearPig, he was leading a previous crusade that might have been called One Desktop With Internet Per Poor Family, to the applause of CEOs of companies like HP. This was before Obamafones.
Wut?
Wouldn't they be a commodity though? Traded like any other thing?
Originally, money i.e. pieces of precious metal people wanted, was that, too.
> Robert Grosseteste
AKA Robert Bigballs
Uwingu is even more legitimate because the name you choose is registered in book form at the US Copyright Office.
You mean the companies which emoy everyone, and which produce the things we want them to produce so we can have things to buy?
Tax those more, passing the costs right back onto ourselves?
Well, it would be more honest -- at least we'd be paying our own way. But don't think for a microsecond it would be getting back at them nasty, worthless, scammin' rich.
I recall in the 1990s the Senate declining to send out a balanced budget amendment to the states. Robert Byrd stood there on the floor, literally with tears streaming down his face, decrying how the Will of the Majority would be thwarted by said amendment as he stood in its way.
Well, yes. Yes it would. You, sir, are neglecting the Will of Future Generations, and Their Right to Not Be Taxed Without Representation.
Note he's dead now, by political design, and future people have to deal with it, by design. He got to sling his power, we ate his words, and now pay for it. And our kids pay even more. Plus housing debt, and student loan debt, all of which is, or will be, heaved onto even further generations, as politicians assuage our egos and tell us we don't have to carry our own weight. Every fifth Slashdot article is student loan crisis, predicted yet nothing done, with implied destiny of government paying for it, i.e. future generations, in exchange for current votes for current power holders.
Did we get our money's worth from Byrd's 1990s borrowing, from their borrowing, which those politicians screamed was absolutely, god dammit necessary!!!!?!?!
Well, was it?
"Your failure to plan does not constitute an emergency on my part", can every nerd here quote. Well, this is that, writ large.
Much of the remaining 30% was things like defense and infrastructure -- this may be bloated, but in theory it benefitted fuure generations, so it was considered ethical to borrow from them to pay for it. But wealth transfer payments?
That is flat-out current generations refusing to carry their own weight.
By the way, taxing the rich won't cut it -- taxing 100% of the rich's income would gain you an additional $500 billion a year (assuming they continue to work for free, good luck with that and keeping their salaries pointlessly high). This is still hundreds of billions a year short.
No, every elected politician knows you have to tax the middle class to pay for the middle classess' wealth transfers (social security, whether retirement or disability).
And these politicians are cowards because they are a huge and motivated voting block.
No, we, the middle class, have to decide on an amendment to prevent ourselves from borrowing from our children. We won't, because we, and our politicians who we elect, are weak.
Cars should not become "data monsters", distracting drivers...for the next 10 years or so until they become robot driver cars.
This whine is a brief interstice between the olden days and the rest of the future. "I don't like buggy whips 'cause it's mean to horses!", screams an irrelevant goofball in 1902.
> "Mt. Gox lost $400 million worth of bitcoins"
"When confronted with the accusation that, in fact, it was he who had stolen the Bitcoins, the owner of Mt. Gox confessed, stating, 'In my defense, that wad was only worth 59 cents at the time.' "
Of course, the cynical, which is to say, vastly overwhelming historical norm, there and in Europe, wherein regulation is meme pap to get useful idiots on your side while the real reason is to get kickbacks for the politicians, continues apace.
Keep arguing in the memespace; it's working as intended.
Merry Old England would have rounded up the Founding Fathers using "just metadata" (who called whom, and when) and therefore they would have forbidden its collection to government without a proper warrant.
The US concept of The People forming a government inherently distrusts those in power, so specifically grants limited powers. It's not a case of "well, WE will use it right!". The power itself is what's wrong.
> Akhenaten's wife (not Tutankhamun's mother) was Nefertiti, who's bust is one of the most iconic symbols of Egypt.
Probably the second most famous of their imagery, second only to the gold helmet they ripped off from Battlestar Galactica.
"Before I vote on this here law," drawled the Boston polit...sorry hold on.
"Before I vote on this heah law," Kennedied the Boston politician, "I'm goin-guh to need to see some of these so-called 'up her skirt' photo-garaffs to make shua they are a vile as suggested. Good. Ok thank you. I will be busy studying them at home. Hold my calls."
As a percent of pre-expenses salary, yes. As a fraction of New York's post-expenses 56k modem, er, salary compared to Austin's 100k+, no.
What you just said is, after all, exactly what the study was trying to figure out. Hell, an Austineer could make several trips a year to NY and elsewhere to pick up cultural goodies like plays and still come out way ahead.
Politicians leap into action!
Remember when that 11 year old girl crashed a plane on takeoff because her idiot dad had her take off in a storm? Congress wasted no time!
You say that in a context of police and prosecutors who deliberately abuse laws, pointing to words and technical violations, so they can pad their tough guy credentials?
I have a great idea -- let's create a greatly restricted government so people can be free from having other people's ideas shoved down their throats.
The problem is the power itself, not who wields it, or how.