As somebody once said, I don't want to have a toolbox filled with tools for all my jobs, I want a hammer that does all my jobs.
Who said THIS? No no, not "who" because no *person* could have said something this inane. WHAT said this? This is just about *the* *stupidest* thing I have ever heard.
You want ONE tool for all jobs? You want a bicycle that doubles as a toothbrush, a microscope and an entertainment system? An airplane that can wash dishes and clean swimming pools while being used to direct traffic at busy intersections? A coke machine that styles hair, photographs the license plates on speeding cars and sterilizes surgical equipment all while at the same time taking high resolution pictures of interstellar space?
Different tools for different jobs are GOOD things. Sure it's nice to have tools that can be used for multiple purposes like, say, duct tape, but you won't want your house to be built with it in lieu of nails!
PLEASE tell me you were making a really poor attempt at humor and relieve my fears that the human race is devolving.
Now, if there was a VALID reason to change the format, people wouldn't be particularly angry. They would understand that becuase of technical restrictions A, B and C, the format needs to change. But when they are adding crap for the SOLE purpose of getting more money with NO benifit to the consumer, well, that's going to raise some eyebrows. Imagine if they sold cars that required payments to be made directly to car manufacturers X per mile driven. Imagine the outrage! Imagine if the electricity in your apartment, besides paying a monthly bill, could ONLY be used for "officialy approved" PG&E appliances...
I was told by some DARPA person that one of the problems the military had with wearable tech was that a bullet which has just travelled through a lithium battery was more toxic than one which hadnt.
Would the answer be to make a bullet-proof self-heating vest?
If you do this, first: prepared to be so incredibly reamed. American companies have long sice lost the concept of business ethics. They are NOT buying your source, they are looking to buy your engineers, understand this. Why? becuase if they aren't interested in your engineers, then they aren't interested in maintianing your code, which means if your code can be profitable to them then they are going to steal your source or at least the concept behind it *no matter what*, prepare yourself for this.
If you must give them code, do it by providing actual *sealed* machines minus networking cards, and disk drives and usb ports (CD is ok, only if it is NOT writable). Seal up the box professionally with security seals that will show tampering. Place keyboad loggers and other spyware on it to watch and record what is done on this box. Go overboard and force the use of tempest-resistant fonts and lock down the system such that new software cannot be installed and add a *hardware* clock that will accurately mark off 45 days. On that day, have the system nuke the hard drive.
I'm not a military man, so I may just be talking out of my ass here, but what's wrong, exactly, with rice? I mean, it packs light, lots of carbohydrates and vitamins, easy and quick to cook, and can be flavored (and taste good to boot) with anything from plain old salt to spicy cajun jambalaya and chinese mixes (and of course meats and veggies when they are available). How long does an MRE take to heat up? A tin can full of water, and handfull of rice, dump in a few spices, shred a few sticks of beek jerky and in under seven minutes I've made myself a high energy, hot meal that tastes great.
Maybe I just don't understand the logistics of it, but I would think if I was given a choice of carrying around a 5 lbs package of MRE's that will last me a couple of days vs. a 5 lbs bag of rice that will last me weeks, I would have to go with the rice...
Somewhere along the line, this new paradigm has, at least temporarily collapsed. I suspect a lot of it has to do with poor understanding of market forces and implemantation rather than the ultimate unfeasability of ad-supported, free online content.
No, it has to do with clickthrough. A magazine ad gets paid for wether or not you look at the ad or just flip to the next page. Nearly 100% of web ads are based on people actually clicking on the ads. If the original ad monkies had had thier heads on straight, we would have kept the OLD system, and subsequently seen 90% of the ad-revenue models succeed and we'd still be living in paradise.
Be careful about charging for slashdot, becuase you'll be shooting yourslef in the foot. Even losing a few thousand readers means a few thousand less people to submit, which means less content, which makes even more people leave. It will spiral down faster than you can say "Slate".
Intel calls in its marker on Ximian and Gnome, demanding royalties for that Intel-patented code
Sure thing Intel, will give you 99% royalties on all the profits we get from these gnome binaries we sell. Here you go, here's your 99% of nothing... Aw what the heck, we'll even double that since we like you so much.
Is it just me, or does it sound like a lot of fun to catch these anti-hydrogen on fire and create antifire. Or smash them together and create antifusion. Sure, we could just annihilate them to make energy, but wouldn't it be such a greater testament to technology (not to mention our sense of irony) if we went through all the trouble of making antimatter just to turn it into a inefficient antiinternal-combustion engine?
A. The next generation of "radio" (broadband wireless webcasting) playing nothing but independant bands and singers without recording contacts.
Q. And the result of THIS?
A. The RIAA will slowly and painfull starve to death and go out of business as it's bands become relgated into obscurity.
There was a great story I was told when I was akid about King Midas who loved gold. He loved it so much that he was granted his one and only wish, that everything he touched would turn to gold... He had a wonderful time turning things into gold, but when dinner time cam around, he suddenly discovered that he couldn't eat without turning the food to gold. He couldn't eat, he couldn't drink, and even his own beautiful daughter was turned to gold.
If the RIAA members were human beings, you know the kind with mothers and fathers, not the kind decanted in tubes, they would have been told this story as children. They would realize that the stronger thier grip on the music, the more they lose it. The crueler they are to thier arch-nemisis, thier customers, the poorer they will be.
Cheer on legislation like this! This is the beginning of the end for them.
I have no idea what they are teaching people in business school, but it sure as hell isn't logic. In my last ten jobs (as a contract worker, I get to see a LOT of different managment techniques), I have seen one theme that never seems to go away. Short term gains are always prefered over long term gains. This is basically the problem with the business world. This is the reason why a slapped together 5 minute patch that solves the problem for a week is almost universally preferred by managment to a wll thought out 5 day patch that will solve the problem permanatly.
I call it the "100% tax rate" syndrome. If you are looking at the super short term, a 100% tax rate would balace the budget, remove the deficit, and give us trillions and trillions in surplus. We would be the most powerful and prosperous America ever. Look rosy and wonderful to you? Well of course not, becuase you know that the end result will be that everyone will be dead of starvation after the first year. But the kind of thinking that management uses today convieniently ignores the second year, and just presents the first year as a utopia.
That's why a time consuming code review is never done, becuase the *short-term* gain of code review is negative. That's why you are forced to maintain shoddy, spaghetti code, becuase a formal rewrite would not buy you anything fast enough. That's why business ethics and integrity are a thing of the past...those kind of assets are viable for companies that have thier eyes set on the future, not the now.
The end result of all this is that to us engineers, who are ALWAYS thinking about the bigger picture, is that we view out management as completely incompetent. We don't realize that they are actually doing a *wonderful* job at accomplishing thier goals: realizing meaningless short-term gains.
The *other* end result is that we see things like the dot-com boom-to-bust cycle, where a new startup seems to take off like a rocket, causing everyone to jump on board, and then swiftly take a nose-dive.
It's a dream sequence. The entire huge mytharc took place during a 30 minute nap Mulder was taking in his office one wednesday afternoon after a particularly large burrito lunch.
Well, you just proved my point. He would STILL have to work! Even if at BK. He couldnt do what he wanted to do without money.
A lot of us can't do what we want to do and get paid for it. I would LOVE to get paid for writing slashdot posts, but that doesn't mean I have some obligation to get paid. Why are these musicians any different?
Would YOU go to work (even if you absolutely loved it and couldnt wait to go back the next day) for free?
Sorry to break it to you, but I really have. I have worked on some free/volenteer projects that were rewarding in ways that did NOT translate to financial gain. I know I must seem like some wierd alien creature for saying this, but I've done community service projects/feed the homeless/etc, and I didn't get paid one red cent. I did it becuase I felt like it was important to do. It seems to be if an artist *really* loved music, and not just money, s/he would be more than willing to work at Burger King and play music in his/her spare time on the street corner for free.
The problem is that as soon as you have to connect to the world outside (like through a network cable... or a power cord) you break the cage, and you've pretty much defeated the whole purpose.
You aren't using microwave lasers to send power to and from your monitor through the cage? And you call yourself a paranoid nutball? You should be ashamed!
Yeah, your distro might be secure, but the illuminati can watch you type, and can enter your hardware. It'll just be a matter of time until they can read the software indirectly.
Um, I think you are forgetting something... The Illuminati are the ones BEAMING THE THOUGHTS TELEPATHICALLY INTO YOUR HEAD, so they don't need to watch what you type, they are already know it!
The second thought, is that if I devote my life to a project and produce a great work, shouldn't I be able to enjoy the spoils and decide the future of that great work? Shouldn't I be able to go to my grave, comforted by the fact that my magnum opus will provide for my children's future?
Honestly, sir, that depends on what you think of your children. If you believe them to be nothing but animals that can be prefectly happy living a world of grunting, eating and pooping, and believe thier mental devolution is completely tangential to thier survival in the world, then by all means, you are thinking correctly.
If, however, you believe that someday they, or thier decendants, will benifit from living in a world where ideas and thought are thier primary motivators, then you need to rethink your argument.
If you really do write a pivitol work, something that can really inspire and affect people, then you are doing a DISSERVICE to your decendants. Sure, your children will have a little extra bread, but all the people they interact with (and breed with) will be that much dumber and less informed. If ever author thought this way, that means that YOUR children will not have access to those works, and thus not have the insights and knowledge that your peers could provide them with.
If you happen to be the next plato or shakespear, then you will be harming your decendants by limiting thier selection of quality thinkers to marry. You will be hurting"humanity", which you may not "feel" you are a part of, but your decendants surely will be.
Think of it this way, if you discover the cure for cancer, and you pass this knowledge only on to your children, then sure, *they* will be cancer free, but the men and women who could have been inventing the flying cars and the free energy machines or whever wonderful things that would make your children's lives better might die of cancer before they can provide these things. The men and women that they could be marrying and having children with could also be dead. You may think you have helped your children survive, but that survival will only be for a very limited time. After a few more generations, your "generosity" will be the end of your family line.
In other words, why would an artist give his/her music away for free when they can make money using pressplay?
Indeed? Why would a woman ever have sex without charging her partner for it? Why would somone stop and help a stranded motorist when they could charge the motorist $50 to use thier car phone? Why the hell would anyone ever give anything away for free when they could be making money?
Becuase, believe it or not, some things are more important than money... I know this is a difficult concept for those in the recording industry to understand.
Hmmm...Korea and Taiwan throwing "Trillions" into nano tech? Korea's GNP for 2000 was approximately $515 billion dollars, Taiwan's was $363 billion. Somehow, I don't think either of these countries has "trillions" to throw at nanotech. Yes, they're investing, but not on that scale.
Trillions of WON, which in US dollars, comes to maybe $3.42...
If you ask the same question twenty times in a row, and get precisely the same response each time, you can be assured that you're dealing with a computer with no self-awareness.
Ah, not so fast, sir. If I tell you: "Ok, bub, your job is to sit here and write the a phrase using rules X, Y, and Z, and I'll pay you the $100 bucks." Then you would happily answer the same question 20 times, even if it was written in perfect English!
So what you are saying is my excellent solution won't work? I proposed this:
Fire off your particle knowing neither the speed nor the location. Then pick a totally random location, and fire a laser beam (or however you find the locations of particles) through every region of space EXCEPT that place. If it hits something, then you start over. If it hits nothing then you pick yet another random position a little further down the track. Again, if something gets hit, start over, if not, then you are done. You can prove exactly where a particle is and how fast it's moving, becuase you have tested everywhere that the particle is NOT. Logic will tell us, in a set of only A, B, and C, if it is neither A nor B, it must be C.
Of course, it would take an unfathomably long time for this to work, but if it did, just once, then you have Heisenburg's scrany little neck in a headlock!
No. I am not arguing an observational effect. In the case of sound -- which does not involve the metric of the Universe, just a collection of gas -- all observers will agree that B (I arrive at SF) followed A (I leave Boston). Yes, you will arrive at SF before a sound wave emitted at Boston -- but you will arrive at SF after you left Boston. It's almost hard to state the opposite...
This is a cop out. If you had no eyes and only could "see" the world by echo location or whatever, then, fo you, the "actual time order" of him leaving and arriving would seem reversed. Since sound is your only sense, you percieve it that way, even though it isn't true.
No one is talking about "faster than time" tavel, just faster then light. So what if the guy seems to reach alpha centari before he left? That doesn't make it so, it just means you a blind man listening to someone travel super sonic across space.
Of all the rhetoric in this very disturbing piece of how western companies are helping censorship overseas, I found this comment most interesting:
"We don't care about the [Chinese government's] rules. It's none of Cisco's business."
Similar to how Mercedes or BMW didn't care much for what those giant ovens were used for in NAZI Germany, because it was none of their business. Oh how the ashes fall.
Oh! Or how about how the drug dealers contribute to terrorism? Isn't this the same kind of thing? We are cracking down on those helping out the "terrorists", but doing nothing to those who are helping out the single most evil and cruel socio-political system in the history of the new world? This is logical?
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As somebody once said, I don't want to have a toolbox filled with tools for all my jobs, I want a hammer that does all my jobs.
Who said THIS? No no, not "who" because no *person* could have said something this inane. WHAT said this? This is just about *the* *stupidest* thing I have ever heard.
You want ONE tool for all jobs? You want a bicycle that doubles as a toothbrush, a microscope and an entertainment system? An airplane that can wash dishes and clean swimming pools while being used to direct traffic at busy intersections? A coke machine that styles hair, photographs the license plates on speeding cars and sterilizes surgical equipment all while at the same time taking high resolution pictures of interstellar space?
Different tools for different jobs are GOOD things. Sure it's nice to have tools that can be used for multiple purposes like, say, duct tape, but you won't want your house to be built with it in lieu of nails!
PLEASE tell me you were making a really poor attempt at humor and relieve my fears that the human race is devolving.
Now, if there was a VALID reason to change the format, people wouldn't be particularly angry. They would understand that becuase of technical restrictions A, B and C, the format needs to change. But when they are adding crap for the SOLE purpose of getting more money with NO benifit to the consumer, well, that's going to raise some eyebrows. Imagine if they sold cars that required payments to be made directly to car manufacturers X per mile driven. Imagine the outrage! Imagine if the electricity in your apartment, besides paying a monthly bill, could ONLY be used for "officialy approved" PG&E appliances...
I had read it as "Self wearing jackets" and I was about to be really impressed... Oh well, maybe someday!
I was told by some DARPA person that one of the problems the military had with wearable tech was that a bullet which has just travelled through a lithium battery was more toxic than one which hadnt.
Would the answer be to make a bullet-proof self-heating vest?
If you do this, first: prepared to be so incredibly reamed. American companies have long sice lost the concept of business ethics. They are NOT buying your source, they are looking to buy your engineers, understand this. Why? becuase if they aren't interested in your engineers, then they aren't interested in maintianing your code, which means if your code can be profitable to them then they are going to steal your source or at least the concept behind it *no matter what*, prepare yourself for this.
If you must give them code, do it by providing actual *sealed* machines minus networking cards, and disk drives and usb ports (CD is ok, only if it is NOT writable). Seal up the box professionally with security seals that will show tampering. Place keyboad loggers and other spyware on it to watch and record what is done on this box. Go overboard and force the use of tempest-resistant fonts and lock down the system such that new software cannot be installed and add a *hardware* clock that will accurately mark off 45 days. On that day, have the system nuke the hard drive.
I'm not a military man, so I may just be talking out of my ass here, but what's wrong, exactly, with rice? I mean, it packs light, lots of carbohydrates and vitamins, easy and quick to cook, and can be flavored (and taste good to boot) with anything from plain old salt to spicy cajun jambalaya and chinese mixes (and of course meats and veggies when they are available). How long does an MRE take to heat up? A tin can full of water, and handfull of rice, dump in a few spices, shred a few sticks of beek jerky and in under seven minutes I've made myself a high energy, hot meal that tastes great.
Maybe I just don't understand the logistics of it, but I would think if I was given a choice of carrying around a 5 lbs package of MRE's that will last me a couple of days vs. a 5 lbs bag of rice that will last me weeks, I would have to go with the rice...
Somewhere along the line, this new paradigm has, at least temporarily collapsed. I suspect a lot of it has to do with poor understanding of market forces and implemantation rather than the ultimate unfeasability of ad-supported, free online content.
No, it has to do with clickthrough. A magazine ad gets paid for wether or not you look at the ad or just flip to the next page. Nearly 100% of web ads are based on people actually clicking on the ads. If the original ad monkies had had thier heads on straight, we would have kept the OLD system, and subsequently seen 90% of the ad-revenue models succeed and we'd still be living in paradise.
Be careful about charging for slashdot, becuase you'll be shooting yourslef in the foot. Even losing a few thousand readers means a few thousand less people to submit, which means less content, which makes even more people leave. It will spiral down faster than you can say "Slate".
Intel calls in its marker on Ximian and Gnome, demanding royalties for that Intel-patented code
Sure thing Intel, will give you 99% royalties on all the profits we get from these gnome binaries we sell. Here you go, here's your 99% of nothing... Aw what the heck, we'll even double that since we like you so much.
Is it just me, or does it sound like a lot of fun to catch these anti-hydrogen on fire and create antifire. Or smash them together and create antifusion. Sure, we could just annihilate them to make energy, but wouldn't it be such a greater testament to technology (not to mention our sense of irony) if we went through all the trouble of making antimatter just to turn it into a inefficient antiinternal-combustion engine?
Q. So the end result of this regulation will be?
A. The next generation of "radio" (broadband wireless webcasting) playing nothing but independant bands and singers without recording contacts.
Q. And the result of THIS?
A. The RIAA will slowly and painfull starve to death and go out of business as it's bands become relgated into obscurity.
There was a great story I was told when I was akid about King Midas who loved gold. He loved it so much that he was granted his one and only wish, that everything he touched would turn to gold... He had a wonderful time turning things into gold, but when dinner time cam around, he suddenly discovered that he couldn't eat without turning the food to gold. He couldn't eat, he couldn't drink, and even his own beautiful daughter was turned to gold.
If the RIAA members were human beings, you know the kind with mothers and fathers, not the kind decanted in tubes, they would have been told this story as children. They would realize that the stronger thier grip on the music, the more they lose it. The crueler they are to thier arch-nemisis, thier customers, the poorer they will be.
Cheer on legislation like this! This is the beginning of the end for them.
I have no idea what they are teaching people in business school, but it sure as hell isn't logic. In my last ten jobs (as a contract worker, I get to see a LOT of different managment techniques), I have seen one theme that never seems to go away. Short term gains are always prefered over long term gains. This is basically the problem with the business world. This is the reason why a slapped together 5 minute patch that solves the problem for a week is almost universally preferred by managment to a wll thought out 5 day patch that will solve the problem permanatly.
I call it the "100% tax rate" syndrome. If you are looking at the super short term, a 100% tax rate would balace the budget, remove the deficit, and give us trillions and trillions in surplus. We would be the most powerful and prosperous America ever. Look rosy and wonderful to you? Well of course not, becuase you know that the end result will be that everyone will be dead of starvation after the first year. But the kind of thinking that management uses today convieniently ignores the second year, and just presents the first year as a utopia.
That's why a time consuming code review is never done, becuase the *short-term* gain of code review is negative. That's why you are forced to maintain shoddy, spaghetti code, becuase a formal rewrite would not buy you anything fast enough. That's why business ethics and integrity are a thing of the past...those kind of assets are viable for companies that have thier eyes set on the future, not the now.
The end result of all this is that to us engineers, who are ALWAYS thinking about the bigger picture, is that we view out management as completely incompetent. We don't realize that they are actually doing a *wonderful* job at accomplishing thier goals: realizing meaningless short-term gains.
The *other* end result is that we see things like the dot-com boom-to-bust cycle, where a new startup seems to take off like a rocket, causing everyone to jump on board, and then swiftly take a nose-dive.
It's a dream sequence. The entire huge mytharc took place during a 30 minute nap Mulder was taking in his office one wednesday afternoon after a particularly large burrito lunch.
Well, you just proved my point. He would STILL have to work! Even if at BK. He couldnt do what he wanted to do without money.
A lot of us can't do what we want to do and get paid for it. I would LOVE to get paid for writing slashdot posts, but that doesn't mean I have some obligation to get paid. Why are these musicians any different?
Would YOU go to work (even if you absolutely loved it and couldnt wait to go back the next day) for free?
Sorry to break it to you, but I really have. I have worked on some free/volenteer projects that were rewarding in ways that did NOT translate to financial gain. I know I must seem like some wierd alien creature for saying this, but I've done community service projects/feed the homeless/etc, and I didn't get paid one red cent. I did it becuase I felt like it was important to do. It seems to be if an artist *really* loved music, and not just money, s/he would be more than willing to work at Burger King and play music in his/her spare time on the street corner for free.
The problem is that as soon as you have to connect to the world outside (like through a network cable... or a power cord) you break the cage, and you've pretty much defeated the whole purpose.
You aren't using microwave lasers to send power to and from your monitor through the cage? And you call yourself a paranoid nutball? You should be ashamed!
Yeah, your distro might be secure, but the illuminati can watch you type, and can enter your hardware. It'll just be a matter of time until they can read the software indirectly.
Um, I think you are forgetting something... The Illuminati are the ones BEAMING THE THOUGHTS TELEPATHICALLY INTO YOUR HEAD, so they don't need to watch what you type, they are already know it!
The second thought, is that if I devote my life to a project and produce a great work, shouldn't I be able to enjoy the spoils and decide the future of that great work? Shouldn't I be able to go to my grave, comforted by the fact that my magnum opus will provide for my children's future?
Honestly, sir, that depends on what you think of your children. If you believe them to be nothing but animals that can be prefectly happy living a world of grunting, eating and pooping, and believe thier mental devolution is completely tangential to thier survival in the world, then by all means, you are thinking correctly.
If, however, you believe that someday they, or thier decendants, will benifit from living in a world where ideas and thought are thier primary motivators, then you need to rethink your argument.
If you really do write a pivitol work, something that can really inspire and affect people, then you are doing a DISSERVICE to your decendants. Sure, your children will have a little extra bread, but all the people they interact with (and breed with) will be that much dumber and less informed. If ever author thought this way, that means that YOUR children will not have access to those works, and thus not have the insights and knowledge that your peers could provide them with.
If you happen to be the next plato or shakespear, then you will be harming your decendants by limiting thier selection of quality thinkers to marry. You will be hurting"humanity", which you may not "feel" you are a part of, but your decendants surely will be.
Think of it this way, if you discover the cure for cancer, and you pass this knowledge only on to your children, then sure, *they* will be cancer free, but the men and women who could have been inventing the flying cars and the free energy machines or whever wonderful things that would make your children's lives better might die of cancer before they can provide these things. The men and women that they could be marrying and having children with could also be dead. You may think you have helped your children survive, but that survival will only be for a very limited time. After a few more generations, your "generosity" will be the end of your family line.
In other words, why would an artist give his/her music away for free when they can make money using pressplay?
Indeed? Why would a woman ever have sex without charging her partner for it? Why would somone stop and help a stranded motorist when they could charge the motorist $50 to use thier car phone? Why the hell would anyone ever give anything away for free when they could be making money?
Becuase, believe it or not, some things are more important than money... I know this is a difficult concept for those in the recording industry to understand.
Hmmm...Korea and Taiwan throwing "Trillions" into nano tech? Korea's GNP for 2000 was approximately $515 billion dollars, Taiwan's was $363 billion. Somehow, I don't think either of these countries has "trillions" to throw at nanotech. Yes, they're investing, but not on that scale.
Trillions of WON, which in US dollars, comes to maybe $3.42...
If you ask the same question twenty times in a row, and get precisely the same response each time, you can be assured that you're dealing with a computer with no self-awareness.
Ah, not so fast, sir. If I tell you: "Ok, bub, your job is to sit here and write the a phrase using rules X, Y, and Z, and I'll pay you the $100 bucks." Then you would happily answer the same question 20 times, even if it was written in perfect English!
So what you are saying is my excellent solution won't work? I proposed this:
Fire off your particle knowing neither the speed nor the location. Then pick a totally random location, and fire a laser beam (or however you find the locations of particles) through every region of space EXCEPT that place. If it hits something, then you start over. If it hits nothing then you pick yet another random position a little further down the track. Again, if something gets hit, start over, if not, then you are done. You can prove exactly where a particle is and how fast it's moving, becuase you have tested everywhere that the particle is NOT. Logic will tell us, in a set of only A, B, and C, if it is neither A nor B, it must be C.
Of course, it would take an unfathomably long time for this to work, but if it did, just once, then you have Heisenburg's scrany little neck in a headlock!
No. I am not arguing an observational effect. In the case of sound -- which does not involve the metric of the Universe, just a collection of gas -- all observers will agree that B (I arrive at SF) followed A (I leave Boston). Yes, you will arrive at SF before a sound wave emitted at Boston -- but you will arrive at SF after you left Boston. It's almost hard to state the opposite...
This is a cop out. If you had no eyes and only could "see" the world by echo location or whatever, then, fo you, the "actual time order" of him leaving and arriving would seem reversed. Since sound is your only sense, you percieve it that way, even though it isn't true.
No one is talking about "faster than time" tavel, just faster then light. So what if the guy seems to reach alpha centari before he left? That doesn't make it so, it just means you a blind man listening to someone travel super sonic across space.
Time travel invented ... 2075 ... 2100
... 2075 ... 2045 ... 2015 ... 1947
Faster than light travel
SHOULD read:
Time travel invented
Time travel invented
Time travel invented
Time travel invented
Of all the rhetoric in this very disturbing piece of how western companies are helping censorship overseas, I found this comment most interesting:
"We don't care about the [Chinese government's] rules. It's none of Cisco's business."
Similar to how Mercedes or BMW didn't care much for what those giant ovens were used for in NAZI Germany, because it was none of their business. Oh how the ashes fall.
Oh! Or how about how the drug dealers contribute to terrorism? Isn't this the same kind of thing? We are cracking down on those helping out the "terrorists", but doing nothing to those who are helping out the single most evil and cruel socio-political system in the history of the new world? This is logical?