I can't imagine thousands of people marching through the streets finding government officals and decapating them
I can imagine it, and I weep for your inability to experience such a joyful thought. Maybe Rockstar or id can assist and make this an easier to imagine scenario for all the world to enjoy? I'd buy and play the hell out of "Enemies of the People 3." Unfortunately, as for the reality of it actually happening... I'm with you on not expecting it to occur in our lifetimes; I'm a little too risk-averse myself to go out there, toting a guillotine.
On the other hand the government is supposed to represent the people and respect our rights. A company is created by a few people for their benefit, but the government is created by all the people, and it should be run to the benefit of everyone, not just the power-hungry and the wealthy.
A government of the people, for the people, and by the people? Are you from the past???
I mean, how much longer are people supposed to put up with 640x480 pixels??? You insensitive clod, StarCraft's resolution means my Libretto 50CT is still useful at a LAN party! (well, overclocked and with a No-CD crack)
... the speculation is wayyyyy off. This is Google's premiere new service to search for, comment on, and provide tutorials for creative suicide methods.
The new generation of US consumers? More like the old generation. In my office, it's always the 50+ crowd making the lame old joke "I'd just like a phone that can dial numbers and make voice calls real good," and "I don't need any of this new-fangled crap." Then they spend time complaining about cell-towers or another unrelated topic. A few years ago, the same people complained about show quality when the topic of HDTV used to come up. There seems to be a fundamental lack of understanding that totally different companies are making handsets/tvs from the people doing things like network rollouts/show scripts. Either that or they just have a natural tendency at being crotchety. I expect to see this trend in behavior forever, until I'm the one exhibiting it.:-)
Seriously, in the last few decades, has Congress produced *any* legislation where the benefits exceeded the costs? It seems that the only thing they're capable of is making their friends richer and ensuring they keep their jobs. Since the system is built so that keeping their jobs == selling out to the highest bidder rather than actually *doing* their jobs (the whole representing the people thing), this won't be changing anytime soon, and I don't understand why there are still people who don't see this. Oh, I forgot, they also pander to the emotional voting blocks who want them to make good sound bites regarding issues the government shouldn't actually be involved in.
I'd like to actually be more optomistic or cheerful about this, so really, has there been *anything* they've done recently that was a net win for the people? Is this ever going to change?
Thinking of a "cancer gene" is misleading. Imagine a net of rubber bands all knotted togethor. Changing one gene will "stretch a rubber band" differently possibly affect all the other aspects of the organism, often unpredictably.
Um... No. Genetic science is already at the point where they're manufacturing transgenic animals based on having correctly identified a gene, and inserting it into an organism with a specific trigger, padding the insertion as needed. I'm looking at some such creatures in my aquarium right now ("Glofish" that have sea coral Red Flourescence Protein in their muscle tissue).
This cancer gene could be the one that also gives humans a soul. We can't tell with a mouse, of course, because they only speak in pips and squeaks, but scientists should know all the risks involved with creating such a possible genetic enhancement.
This is not a problem in the slightest... in fact it is an opportunity! If you have this reservation, do not make use of such treatments if/when they arrive. Too bad the "I don't believe in evolution" crowd doesn't practice this and stop using updated flu shots, etc... Seriously though... if this was a real concern, would you then consider all people with mutations to be possibly soulless? Perhaps it's some interesting theory you have about the white people? (mutation occured, hence no soul) *rimshot*
What advantages did you find in this device over your Zaurus (and which model of Zaurus)? I still love my SL-5500 as a jack-of-all-trades, carry-everywhere computer, but I've been thinking of upgrading to one of the newer Japanese models. Those are much pricier than this Nokia unit though... Is there anything you miss about the Zaurus since you've switched?
The problem is that they have drowned real government functions in the bathtub, but they're still proclaiming that it's alive and well, and charging us more for these "services" every year. If they'd just honestly pursue their smaller government goal, then at least people would expect to fend for themselves and maybe even try to help their neighbors more. Things would have been less bad with Katrina if the people of New Orleans weren't still thinking FEMA was alive and well.
That's not to say a functional FEMA would have been even better yet, but this "of course we provide these services; you're paying for them, aren't you?" is far more disastrous than actually minimizing government. With the GOP, we get the worst of both worlds! (I'm sure the other major party would muck up the world as badly in other ways though)
Also, the Bookmarklet code seems not to work with Amazon's current URL structure. Here's an update... you'll need to parse out the Slashdot injected spaces and carriage returns, or simply use their bookmarklet and replace/-/ with/product/ and 3 and 13 with 9 and 19.
If you're giving money to the RIAA cartel, then you're funding their legal bullying, and you're funding their legislation-purchasing efforts. This is simple to realize, and not some bullshit argument like buying weed from the neighborhood grower funds terrorism.
I am not suggesting that you stop buying CDs! Although I do suggest that you do not purchase new CDs from the companies that contribute to this problem. In addition to boycott, there are other legal ways to make your point. Use RIAA Radar to see if an album is tainted; tell your friends about the service. Buy directly from small artists. Browse MySpace to find new stuff by indie bands. Go to Used CD stores. Tell people about how you spend money on music and how you will not spend money on music. Warn people about corrupt Sony CDs and whatever the next violation is. Tell people what copyright was supposed to mean versus what it means today.
You may not topple the giant alone, but when the daughter of a senator learns about the issue and feels strongly about it, when an exec of a smaller music label makes *less* money with the cartel and drops out of the RIAA, when a cavalier journalist with CNN or Fox hears about today's story and decides to air it, you've made a difference.
I don't know. Willfully ignorant people are to be exploited just as meat is to be eaten. Hell; more so. Further, is there actual harm being done in this case?
In at least the way I do it: I simply use DHCP. I ask for an address and DNS info. The network can say "bugger off" or "welcome aboard." The humans involved may be clueless or may be offering access intentionally, but the best indicator available on an open access point is through the simple DHCP request, which can easily be denied.
Your sense of ethics may provide you with a different attitude towards this, but I'm very comfortable with it: I asked for access, and handing me an IP and info on how to resolve names is permission. If someone operates a device that they don't understand in the slightest, they don't have a basis for being pissy about other people getting on the 'net through them. They can RTFM or STFU; they are not being "hacked" and it is not "unauthorized entry."
So... although it'll cost postage, everyone now has his physical address... Maybe he needs some letters about c! alis and U N I V E R S I T Y Diplomas, etc...
I've bought several interesting / alternative watches from TokyoFlash My favorites have been the Equalizer, Pimp, and Twelve 5-9 B. When I was in China and Thailand, I bought some by brands called ODM and Thix, a few of which are carried / were carried by TokyoFlash as well. You'll see many of the same models on ebay too, although often around the same price.
I did have to send back my Equalizer due to it being extremely dim, even with a new battery, and TokyoFlash turned it around pretty quick and paid me back for my shipping to them. As far as readability of those funky designs, I find the Twelve 5-9 to be the quickest / easiest, with the Equalizer a bit behind the Pimp.
Even the best-trained human eyes and ears, according to Kip, can't detect the change.
Just like those fucking annoying orange dots. Once you spot them during an action sequence in a movie, they keep jumping out at you, breaking the immersion in the film over and over. Actually, if they replace the dots with anything even *slightly* better, I'd applaud the move.
Sony is meeting it's goals admirably: piss off and piss on everyone and everything they can. Sell rootkit audio CDs, kill off the cool robots, destroy SWG, fight for ultra-invasive DRM in the next DVD standard.
If you see Sony do something cool or valuable for its customers or humans at large, then something's off and it's time to be afraid. I remember when Sony meant "great quality product." I feel like such a geezer. I'm expecting them to ruin Sony-Ericsson phones any time now.:-(
A few weeks ago I was on vacation and visiting one of the more beautiful suspension bridges in the states. I was using a consumer style digital camera to hopefully get a decent shot for home use. After shooting the bridge and other good angles for maybe 30 minutes from a nearby park area, the local police arrived. They told me that photographing the bridge is "strongly discouraged." I looked at them like they were on crack, and they added, "for national security reasons." To their credit, they were very polite and seemed somewhat uncomfortable with their new job of keeping the world safe from photos.
The bridge had a new lighting system specifically made for aesthetic purposes, funded by donations from the public over the last couple decades, and this is the fruit of those efforts.
I'm too young to feel this damn old. I remember when this kind of bullshit was for those countries that didn't have freedom like the US. When I was in elementary school (in the 1980s), this would have been a scary story about the USSR or Nazi-era Germany, but unthinkable for the "land of the free." I hope to hell that the warning klaxons were louder than this for the Germans 70 or so years back. I'd rather be overly paranoid and bent about the issue than just plain correctly worried. Planet-wide and synchronized, this shit is making me ill.
Family Guy has been awful since they restarted it. Be careful what you wish for.
I've also noticed the show being more... shallow and repetitive, like it has lost something. However, I still tune in and still get some laughs out of it, because a crappier Family Guy is a whole lot better than most shows at their best, IMHO. Fox has to air *something*. I do miss Andy Richter Controls the Universe though...
That show could possibly be my favorite sci-fi series yet, even better than the new Battlestar... Did anyone watch it through? It had some of the deepest content about real dilemnas that would be faced by a society with futuristic technology that I've ever seen. Admittedly, I haven't seen many anime series, but that one really struck me as amazing. They had Futurama, Thunderbirds, and several mini-series, so I'm not sure why anime would be ruled out, either.
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I can't imagine thousands of people marching through the streets finding government officals and decapating them
I can imagine it, and I weep for your inability to experience such a joyful thought. Maybe Rockstar or id can assist and make this an easier to imagine scenario for all the world to enjoy? I'd buy and play the hell out of "Enemies of the People 3." Unfortunately, as for the reality of it actually happening... I'm with you on not expecting it to occur in our lifetimes; I'm a little too risk-averse myself to go out there, toting a guillotine.
On the other hand the government is supposed to represent the people and respect our rights. A company is created by a few people for their benefit, but the government is created by all the people, and it should be run to the benefit of everyone, not just the power-hungry and the wealthy.
A government of the people, for the people, and by the people? Are you from the past???
I mean, how much longer are people supposed to put up with 640x480 pixels???
You insensitive clod, StarCraft's resolution means my Libretto 50CT is still useful at a LAN party! (well, overclocked and with a No-CD crack)
Once I have seen a music video once, why would I ever want one enough to pay for it again? This isn't a movie or even porn we're talking about here.
You've never seen Sir Mix a Lot's "Put 'Em On The Glass" then.
... the speculation is wayyyyy off. This is Google's premiere new service to search for, comment on, and provide tutorials for creative suicide methods.
The new generation of US consumers? More like the old generation. In my office, it's always the 50+ crowd making the lame old joke "I'd just like a phone that can dial numbers and make voice calls real good," and "I don't need any of this new-fangled crap." Then they spend time complaining about cell-towers or another unrelated topic. A few years ago, the same people complained about show quality when the topic of HDTV used to come up. There seems to be a fundamental lack of understanding that totally different companies are making handsets/tvs from the people doing things like network rollouts/show scripts. Either that or they just have a natural tendency at being crotchety. I expect to see this trend in behavior forever, until I'm the one exhibiting it. :-)
Seriously, in the last few decades, has Congress produced *any* legislation where the benefits exceeded the costs? It seems that the only thing they're capable of is making their friends richer and ensuring they keep their jobs. Since the system is built so that keeping their jobs == selling out to the highest bidder rather than actually *doing* their jobs (the whole representing the people thing), this won't be changing anytime soon, and I don't understand why there are still people who don't see this. Oh, I forgot, they also pander to the emotional voting blocks who want them to make good sound bites regarding issues the government shouldn't actually be involved in.
I'd like to actually be more optomistic or cheerful about this, so really, has there been *anything* they've done recently that was a net win for the people? Is this ever going to change?
Thinking of a "cancer gene" is misleading. Imagine a net of rubber bands all knotted togethor. Changing one gene will "stretch a rubber band" differently possibly affect all the other aspects of the organism, often unpredictably.
Um... No. Genetic science is already at the point where they're manufacturing transgenic animals based on having correctly identified a gene, and inserting it into an organism with a specific trigger, padding the insertion as needed. I'm looking at some such creatures in my aquarium right now ("Glofish" that have sea coral Red Flourescence Protein in their muscle tissue).
This cancer gene could be the one that also gives humans a soul. We can't tell with a mouse, of course, because they only speak in pips and squeaks, but scientists should know all the risks involved with creating such a possible genetic enhancement.
This is not a problem in the slightest... in fact it is an opportunity! If you have this reservation, do not make use of such treatments if/when they arrive. Too bad the "I don't believe in evolution" crowd doesn't practice this and stop using updated flu shots, etc... Seriously though... if this was a real concern, would you then consider all people with mutations to be possibly soulless? Perhaps it's some interesting theory you have about the white people? (mutation occured, hence no soul) *rimshot*
What advantages did you find in this device over your Zaurus (and which model of Zaurus)? I still love my SL-5500 as a jack-of-all-trades, carry-everywhere computer, but I've been thinking of upgrading to one of the newer Japanese models. Those are much pricier than this Nokia unit though... Is there anything you miss about the Zaurus since you've switched?
The problem is that they have drowned real government functions in the bathtub, but they're still proclaiming that it's alive and well, and charging us more for these "services" every year. If they'd just honestly pursue their smaller government goal, then at least people would expect to fend for themselves and maybe even try to help their neighbors more. Things would have been less bad with Katrina if the people of New Orleans weren't still thinking FEMA was alive and well.
That's not to say a functional FEMA would have been even better yet, but this "of course we provide these services; you're paying for them, aren't you?" is far more disastrous than actually minimizing government. With the GOP, we get the worst of both worlds! (I'm sure the other major party would muck up the world as badly in other ways though)
Also, the Bookmarklet code seems not to work with Amazon's current URL structure. Here's an update... you'll need to parse out the Slashdot injected spaces and carriage returns, or simply use their bookmarklet and replace /-/ with /product/ and 3 and 13 with 9 and 19.
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If you're giving money to the RIAA cartel, then you're funding their legal bullying, and you're funding their legislation-purchasing efforts. This is simple to realize, and not some bullshit argument like buying weed from the neighborhood grower funds terrorism.
I am not suggesting that you stop buying CDs! Although I do suggest that you do not purchase new CDs from the companies that contribute to this problem. In addition to boycott, there are other legal ways to make your point. Use RIAA Radar to see if an album is tainted; tell your friends about the service. Buy directly from small artists. Browse MySpace to find new stuff by indie bands. Go to Used CD stores. Tell people about how you spend money on music and how you will not spend money on music. Warn people about corrupt Sony CDs and whatever the next violation is. Tell people what copyright was supposed to mean versus what it means today.
You may not topple the giant alone, but when the daughter of a senator learns about the issue and feels strongly about it, when an exec of a smaller music label makes *less* money with the cartel and drops out of the RIAA, when a cavalier journalist with CNN or Fox hears about today's story and decides to air it, you've made a difference.
I don't know. Willfully ignorant people are to be exploited just as meat is to be eaten. Hell; more so. Further, is there actual harm being done in this case?
In at least the way I do it: I simply use DHCP. I ask for an address and DNS info. The network can say "bugger off" or "welcome aboard." The humans involved may be clueless or may be offering access intentionally, but the best indicator available on an open access point is through the simple DHCP request, which can easily be denied.
Your sense of ethics may provide you with a different attitude towards this, but I'm very comfortable with it: I asked for access, and handing me an IP and info on how to resolve names is permission. If someone operates a device that they don't understand in the slightest, they don't have a basis for being pissy about other people getting on the 'net through them. They can RTFM or STFU; they are not being "hacked" and it is not "unauthorized entry."
Not a bad concept. India's President is a rocket scientist. (I am not using hyperbole)
So... although it'll cost postage, everyone now has his physical address... Maybe he needs some letters about c! alis and U N I V E R S I T Y Diplomas, etc...
I've bought several interesting / alternative watches from TokyoFlash My favorites have been the Equalizer, Pimp, and Twelve 5-9 B. When I was in China and Thailand, I bought some by brands called ODM and Thix, a few of which are carried / were carried by TokyoFlash as well. You'll see many of the same models on ebay too, although often around the same price.
I did have to send back my Equalizer due to it being extremely dim, even with a new battery, and TokyoFlash turned it around pretty quick and paid me back for my shipping to them. As far as readability of those funky designs, I find the Twelve 5-9 to be the quickest / easiest, with the Equalizer a bit behind the Pimp.
Even the best-trained human eyes and ears, according to Kip, can't detect the change.
Just like those fucking annoying orange dots. Once you spot them during an action sequence in a movie, they keep jumping out at you, breaking the immersion in the film over and over. Actually, if they replace the dots with anything even *slightly* better, I'd applaud the move.
Sony is meeting it's goals admirably: piss off and piss on everyone and everything they can. Sell rootkit audio CDs, kill off the cool robots, destroy SWG, fight for ultra-invasive DRM in the next DVD standard.
:-(
If you see Sony do something cool or valuable for its customers or humans at large, then something's off and it's time to be afraid. I remember when Sony meant "great quality product." I feel like such a geezer. I'm expecting them to ruin Sony-Ericsson phones any time now.
So I need to start running around like Christopher Reeves did on South Park, popping an embryo every so often to make me healthier!
Healthy Eating
Prior art can be claimed by a young Ms. Gail of Kansas, United States.
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And her device featured "off-road" capabilities as well.
A few weeks ago I was on vacation and visiting one of the more beautiful suspension bridges in the states. I was using a consumer style digital camera to hopefully get a decent shot for home use. After shooting the bridge and other good angles for maybe 30 minutes from a nearby park area, the local police arrived. They told me that photographing the bridge is "strongly discouraged." I looked at them like they were on crack, and they added, "for national security reasons." To their credit, they were very polite and seemed somewhat uncomfortable with their new job of keeping the world safe from photos.
The bridge had a new lighting system specifically made for aesthetic purposes, funded by donations from the public over the last couple decades, and this is the fruit of those efforts.
I'm too young to feel this damn old. I remember when this kind of bullshit was for those countries that didn't have freedom like the US. When I was in elementary school (in the 1980s), this would have been a scary story about the USSR or Nazi-era Germany, but unthinkable for the "land of the free." I hope to hell that the warning klaxons were louder than this for the Germans 70 or so years back. I'd rather be overly paranoid and bent about the issue than just plain correctly worried. Planet-wide and synchronized, this shit is making me ill.
Family Guy has been awful since they restarted it. Be careful what you wish for.
I've also noticed the show being more... shallow and repetitive, like it has lost something. However, I still tune in and still get some laughs out of it, because a crappier Family Guy is a whole lot better than most shows at their best, IMHO. Fox has to air *something*. I do miss Andy Richter Controls the Universe though...
... has some very insightful commentary about Jack Thompson. I learned quite a lot more about this fellow today.
http://www.megagamerz.com/archive/051018.html
That show could possibly be my favorite sci-fi series yet, even better than the new Battlestar... Did anyone watch it through? It had some of the deepest content about real dilemnas that would be faced by a society with futuristic technology that I've ever seen. Admittedly, I haven't seen many anime series, but that one really struck me as amazing. They had Futurama, Thunderbirds, and several mini-series, so I'm not sure why anime would be ruled out, either.