Note the predictions also included the usual claptrap -- massive starvations, shortages of oil, expensive energy.
They predict. Julian Simon said "No." Still more confirmation of his theory that freedom-based capitalism works to satisfy desires, and does so faster than problems make things worse.
Unlike 99% of politics, it has been decades now since you had to "take his word for it."
Tracking johns and publically embarrassing them is just one tiny aspect of the multiheaded hydra meme battling for dominance. Groups of ideas battle to reproduce, evolving and using all tricks at their disposal, including force of law.
That you feel this or that law is good or bad is about as important to the meme datastream as the fact you have a leg or brain is to your DNA datastream. It's just a functionary detail in the service of its reproduction.
Or Republicans for that matter. A few years ago Democrats requested a list of people who signed a petition to get something on the ballot. Their admitted intent was to hassle and intimidate these people.
The Supreme Court upheld the request, as that is technically public information, but expressed geat concern over gros. That's a hint to Congress that they maybe might wanna do something about it.
A play, depicting what went through mind exactly as and when I read it:
> neutrino-powered financial trading systems may be > coming soon, which would enable extremely low-latency > information to be transmitted directly through the center > of the Earth between major financial exchanges.
It's been a very good month for me, +5-wise, so I can afford to say this:
"I don't know what Carmack is talking about -- Linus is a hell of a game market: there are hundreds of thousands of Linux users, each one of which is ready to bittorrent the games."
> believe that a GPU cluster could be suited to stitching together the more than > an exabyte of data that will be gathered by the telescope each day after its > completion in 2024
> Apparently they were watching the wrong type of bombshells.
Brian: Dumb joke. Stewie: You think it's so easy, name 12.
Brian: Apparently they were watching the wrong type of missiles. Apparently they were watching the wrong type of payloads. Apparently they were watching the wrong type of shots. Apparently they were watching the wrong type of O-rings. Apparently they were watching the wrong type of re-entry procedure. Apparently they were watching the wrong type of liquid coolant. Apparently they were watching the wrong type of emergency ejection. Apparently they were watching the wrong type of solid rocket. Apparently they were watching the wrong type of holding pattern. Apparently they were watching the wrong type of engine flameout. Apparently they were watching the wrong type of fire surpression system. Apparently they were watching the wrong type of throttle up.
Stewie: Name 5 more.
Brian: Apparently they were watching the wrong type of loading the cargo bay. Apparently they were watching the wrong type of playing with the funny arm. Apparently they were watching the wrong type of rubber suit. Apparently they were watching the wrong type of trans docking. Apparently they were watching the wrong type of linkup.
Stewie: Name 6 more.
Brian: Apparently they were watching the wrong type of system failure. Apparently they were watching the wrong type of manual procedure. Apparently they were watching the wrong type of stirring the tank. Apparently they were watching the wrong type of evacuation procedure. Apparently they were watching the wrong type of moon rover.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of boot to the moon.
Stewie: (Throws guitar on the floor) F(bleep) you!
Brian:
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of separation procedure.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of Weiner von Braun.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of 'tang.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of...
The time will come, young ones, when commercial space will take off. Some of the large companies in it will start up with the "Space is crowded and launch windows and launch spaces are limited and therefore Congress should restrict it to just us" BS.
Fuck that bullshit.
WWRAHD?
What would Robert A. Heinlein do?
"Fuck that bullshit!" and he'd fake up a video of the lead senator jerking off to child porn.
I do believe that was largely the point of my post.
In any case those modding it -1 Troll need to go watch the Howard Huges movie starring Leo DiCaprio.
In there his TWA has to fight a battle against Pan Am, not to be an internal domestic carrier but to be the international one for the US. Pan Am was god and had convinced the Congress, for its own benefit, that "This market ain't big enough for he two of us."
Hughes launched a public campaign about freedom of choice and Congress backed down.
This socialist nonsense is indeed within living memory, sir.
If you wish to chastize me that times have changed, then good. Freedom has won and shifted the debate.
Allow me the conceit of continuing to plunge a dagger into the dead vampire's heart once in awhile. After all, it does no harm to something dead, right?
"It's the well-connected using government to pick economic winners and losers."
Don't laugh. We are not so far from the era where government deciding, "This country isn't big enough to support several, therefore company A may operate and company B is hereby put out of business." was viewed as a legitimate principle. Socialists cheered while money exchanged hands behind the scenes just like it had for thousands of years with kings.
I was unaware a shark's teeth were particularly tough. Sharp, sure. But since they were constantly being replaced, if anything, they'd be crapper quality, grown much faster.
It's bad enough we have crap like the secret AT&T room for the NSA which filters all phone calls through it -- the government isn't monitoring opposing party's calls, trust us.
A country like India, which is still largely the desired place for college students to work -- so they can rise up and start demanding kickbacks. (Don't mod me down as a troll -- mod down the multiple Indian computer programmers who told me this was how it is.)
Not the greatest environment to feel secure your secrets aren't being sold off to the highest bidders.
The insurance industry had a problem with cost-of-defense complaints: crappy auto accidents that weren't worth more than a few grand in damages. But they banded together and fought every single one of them (paying just the actual damages & medical, and fighting almost every "pain & suffering" claim
Had a buddy whose wife was getting sued. A car of people (who had done this several times before) turned left from a side street in front of her, and she rear-ended them.
They were claiming that she was responsible to pay them since she didn't swerve and slaughter herself in oncoming traffic.
One of the affected insurance companies wanted to settle, the other was fighting it to the death. I have no idea the result. I hope the people in the other car and their lawyers all got kidnapped and had their heads sawn off.
Oh, also some porn company in Korea once got ahold of my credit card (god only knows how) and started charging multiple monthly porn site fees. I questioned it and they sent me an email saying they'd call my work, my friends, my family, and ask why I wasn't paying my porn bills.
I walked to the door I fell to the floor I got down on my knees And I looked at her and she at me And that's the way that I want it to be I always want it to be that way for my Lola Lo Lo Lo Lo Lola...
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Piano was mastered as a harpsichord before it was invented. There were probably simpler key-based plinkers or harp mechanics prior to that.
Somebody didn't just say one day, let's tip a harp on its side and whack it with lil' hammers like a xylophone.
Dick Tracy's two-way wrist radio, which turned into a two-way wrist TV.
Note the predictions also included the usual claptrap -- massive starvations, shortages of oil, expensive energy.
They predict. Julian Simon said "No." Still more confirmation of his theory that freedom-based capitalism works to satisfy desires, and does so faster than problems make things worse.
Unlike 99% of politics, it has been decades now since you had to "take his word for it."
Every academic was a longhair? A look at a NASA room back then looks like the casting room for Falling Down.
Fair enough you don't like it, but is that really something one should wield government to deal with?
Tracking johns and publically embarrassing them is just one tiny aspect of the multiheaded hydra meme battling for dominance. Groups of ideas battle to reproduce, evolving and using all tricks at their disposal, including force of law.
That you feel this or that law is good or bad is about as important to the meme datastream as the fact you have a leg or brain is to your DNA datastream. It's just a functionary detail in the service of its reproduction.
Or Republicans for that matter. A few years ago Democrats requested a list of people who signed a petition to get something on the ballot. Their admitted intent was to hassle and intimidate these people.
The Supreme Court upheld the request, as that is technically public information, but expressed geat concern over gros. That's a hint to Congress that they maybe might wanna do something about it.
I advise rigidly farming it out.
I submit any society that outlaws it will soon be eclipsed by those that do not.
Maybe I'll look into learning Chinese after all.
A play, depicting what went through mind exactly as and when I read it:
> neutrino-powered financial trading systems may be
> coming soon, which would enable extremely low-latency
> information to be transmitted directly through the center
> of the Earth between major financial exchanges.
WHAT
THE
FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!
It's been a very good month for me, +5-wise, so I can afford to say this:
"I don't know what Carmack is talking about -- Linus is a hell of a game market: there are hundreds of thousands of Linux users, each one of which is ready to bittorrent the games."
I agree with both parts. The people tell the government what to think, not the other way around.
Any such actions by any civil authority will get bodyslammed by the courts, and rightly so.
Government will adjust to having gay marriage...because the people told it to.
> believe that a GPU cluster could be suited to stitching together the more than
> an exabyte of data that will be gathered by the telescope each day after its
> completion in 2024
Nah, I'll let you use an app on my Galaxy S12
> Apparently they were watching the wrong type of bombshells.
Brian: Dumb joke.
Stewie: You think it's so easy, name 12.
Brian:
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of missiles.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of payloads.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of shots.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of O-rings.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of re-entry procedure.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of liquid coolant.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of emergency ejection.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of solid rocket.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of holding pattern.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of engine flameout.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of fire surpression system.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of throttle up.
Stewie: Name 5 more.
Brian:
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of loading the cargo bay.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of playing with the funny arm.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of rubber suit.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of trans docking.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of linkup.
Stewie: Name 6 more.
Brian:
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of system failure.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of manual procedure.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of stirring the tank.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of evacuation procedure.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of moon rover.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of boot to the moon.
Stewie: (Throws guitar on the floor) F(bleep) you!
Brian: ...
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of separation procedure.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of Weiner von Braun.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of 'tang.
Apparently they were watching the wrong type of
Stewie: Now you die.
The time will come, young ones, when commercial space will take off. Some of the large companies in it will start up with the "Space is crowded and launch windows and launch spaces are limited and therefore Congress should restrict it to just us" BS.
Fuck that bullshit.
WWRAHD?
What would Robert A. Heinlein do?
"Fuck that bullshit!" and he'd fake up a video of the lead senator jerking off to child porn.
I do believe that was largely the point of my post.
In any case those modding it -1 Troll need to go watch the Howard Huges movie starring Leo DiCaprio.
In there his TWA has to fight a battle against Pan Am, not to be an internal domestic carrier but to be the international one for the US. Pan Am was god and had convinced the Congress, for its own benefit, that "This market ain't big enough for he two of us."
Hughes launched a public campaign about freedom of choice and Congress backed down.
This socialist nonsense is indeed within living memory, sir.
If you wish to chastize me that times have changed, then good. Freedom has won and shifted the debate.
Allow me the conceit of continuing to plunge a dagger into the dead vampire's heart once in awhile. After all, it does no harm to something dead, right?
It' s just as well -- software engineers tend to be Metrosexualless anyway.
This couldn't happen in the US because, although companies have rights to frequencies, there aren't any exclusive areas, by design.
In fact, it seems like England doesn't either, or this physically couldn't be an issue.
I would ask for the resignation of politicians who sold off "rights" to exclusive wireless access.
"It's seeding!"
"It's the well-connected using government to pick economic winners and losers."
Don't laugh. We are not so far from the era where government deciding, "This country isn't big enough to support several, therefore company A may operate and company B is hereby put out of business." was viewed as a legitimate principle. Socialists cheered while money exchanged hands behind the scenes just like it had for thousands of years with kings.
Only the memetic wrapper changed.
I was unaware a shark's teeth were particularly tough. Sharp, sure. But since they were constantly being replaced, if anything, they'd be crapper quality, grown much faster.
It's bad enough we have crap like the secret AT&T room for the NSA which filters all phone calls through it -- the government isn't monitoring opposing party's calls, trust us.
A country like India, which is still largely the desired place for college students to work -- so they can rise up and start demanding kickbacks. (Don't mod me down as a troll -- mod down the multiple Indian computer programmers who told me this was how it is.)
Not the greatest environment to feel secure your secrets aren't being sold off to the highest bidders.
Had a buddy whose wife was getting sued. A car of people (who had done this several times before) turned left from a side street in front of her, and she rear-ended them.
They were claiming that she was responsible to pay them since she didn't swerve and slaughter herself in oncoming traffic.
One of the affected insurance companies wanted to settle, the other was fighting it to the death. I have no idea the result. I hope the people in the other car and their lawyers all got kidnapped and had their heads sawn off.
Oh, also some porn company in Korea once got ahold of my credit card (god only knows how) and started charging multiple monthly porn site fees. I questioned it and they sent me an email saying they'd call my work, my friends, my family, and ask why I wasn't paying my porn bills.
I had the credit card cancelled immediately.
> How the world should react positively to China beating America back to the moon.
Yes, "We, for one, welcome our new Chinese overlords..."
They should have forced it to play "Lola".
I walked to the door
I fell to the floor
I got down on my knees
And I looked at her and she at me
And that's the way that I want it to be
I always want it to be that way for my Lola
Lo Lo Lo Lo Lola...
> This is what happens when everyone stops using RSS/Atom for syndication.
This is what happens when stockholders with pockets $100 billion lighter start asking about return on investment.