BitTorrent is used to distribute open source software and materials. You cannot just block BT because a few also use it for piracy it will hurt open source and you cannot throw the baby out with the bathwater.
That is because the definition of a fantastic president currently is someone who is not George W. Bush or a Bush clone like McCain was accused of being. Since Obama is a Liberal Democrat, he is automaticaly a fantastic president before he even takes office. But I should note that while he didn't take office yet he already announced that he will be breaking his promises as soon as he takes office, Usually the typical politican won't tell you that he breaks promises until after being in the office for a while, and breaks it by sneaking it into some unpopular bill as an "add on" and hope nobody notices he did the opposite of what he promised. But since Oabama is new to politics he announces the promises he will break after he is sworn in, via advanced notice.
Which is lower standards than usual. A fatanstic president used to be one that balanced the budget and used his veto power responsibility and worked with Congress to control spending and fix the economy and help create more jobs and prevent pointless wars from breaking out.
Actually such things as Tang, Goretext, the Microchip, Fiber optics, Fiber glass, etc were all products of NASA's spending billions to get a rocket to make it to the Moon and back.
The technology produced as a side-effect of making a Moon shot benefited our economy more than the billions spent on making the Moonshot.
For example, if we never invented the Microchip, we would never have computers small enough or use less power to be able to work in our homes and small offices. You'd still have dinosaur Mainframes that only Megacorporations could afford and the electric bill for such a thing would be scary as well.
If not for Fiber optic, there would be no Internet at least with Broadband speeds, we'd all still be at 56K BPS dial-up speeds and video and voice over Internet would be almost impossible and we'd sort of be in BBS and Telenet type text based services without a GUI web interface.
You also would not have NASA contractors buying supplies from other USA companies to keep people employed as they steadily sell raw materials to Boeing and Rockwell and other companies that work with NASA.
I think by gutting NASA and the Moonshots, Obama is pennywise and poundfoolish. In 5 to 10 years time, we'd have new technology using less power and a smaller space, so little power and fewer elements like mercury and other harmful substances that it would help fight global warming and peak oil, and develop a replacement fuel for oil/gas as it would perfect the fuel cell using hydrogen or water for fuel for use in new Moon buggies and Ares and Orion systems for backup power.
The NASA projects that suck up cash and don't give any in return are those Telescope projects, mapping the stars, and SETI the search for Extra Terrestrial Life, that seem to be NASA's nlack holes for sucking in the cash by the billions or trillions with nothing given in return.
Why are we wasting money on SETI? If an ET wants to talk to us, he/she will find a way to use a system that makes use of our primitive tech for him/her to communicate over. Obviously if aliens exist, they have a way to hide their communication signals from us using encryption that mimicks natural background noises and white noise so it is hard for our primitive computers to detect. Besides the fact that they are not talking to us, if they do exist, is proof that they are highly evolved and understand that we are not worth talking to and will be xenophobic towards their alien race and try to take over their ships and steal their technology.
Either download the BitTorrent version and claim "fair use" clause as a defense, optionally writing a check to the PO box of the publishing company for the retail price of the book to cover any legal problems (well I paid you $X and you cashed the check, so basically I bought the book, but in eBook format.) or another thing to do is check out rare book stores, usually book stores that deal in rare copies of the book.
But it can backfire. The Amiga Guru book was written in German and then English and someone scanned the book and made it an eBook on BitTorrent and made the author mad because it was a self-published book. So the original Amiga Guru book covered the AmigaOS 2.1 version and the new version would cover 3.1 and 4.0, but he got so mad he didn't publish the new book because of the piracy of the old book.
A pity because the Amiga Guru Book really helped developers by documenting the Amiga GUI and coding standards to follow to write commercial quality programs for the Amiga. It is a book that Amiga, Inc should have published themselves, hint hint to Amiga,Inc. publish a book like that to help promote the new Amiga systems and AmigaOS.
Now the Amiga Guru Book author claims he will only give a copy of the new Guru book to people who send him a copy of a rare Commodore 64 ROM Kernel book in German. Quid pro quo, help him find copies of another rare book and he will gladly give you a copy of his rare book.
By the way I'm looking for "101 BASIC Computer Games" and the sequel "More 101 BASIC Computer Games" but every place I check is sold out and it is out of print. In the early 1980's and late 1970's it wrote BASIC programs in the old version of BASIC that every 8 bit computer shared and had the source code to Eliza and Hunt the Wumps and some Zork clone written in BASIC called The Adventure or something. It isn't even in eBook format, a pity, as we lost an important piece of computer history. It even had typos and grammar and spelling errors in it when it was published. I think they typed up the whole thing on a typewriter or an early Word processor that lacked even spell check.
This is a post from Frank in my Pirate's mailing list group:
I think the human race needs to start thinking of space exploration as necessity.
Obama wants to create 2.5 million jobs for 2k+9. But the prob is that we need
1) work that needs to be done 2) negotiate a price that the workers are willing to work for, and the employer is willing to pay.
Without those two things, it's like trying to use an electric motor to charge its own battery.
The truth is, the earth isn't big enough for everyone. We want to increase wealth for everyone. To do so we have two options:
1) take it from someone else 2) go where there is unclaimed wealth
The great thing about space is that there is a lot of it. You see, if I have a candy bar, and the teacher sees me with it says, "are you going to share with everyone?" I have no choice but to put it away because by the time I divide it up, my piece will be too small.
But if I can go to where there's a truckload of candy, I can truly share with everyone. So it is with outer space.
So when we think of space exploration as a necessity, we will have:
jobs in space homes in space nightclubs in space shopping malls in space restaurants in space
At the rate he is degenerating at, I read a report that stated he had 10 to 20 years left before it gets so bad he will have even more serious problems. Advances in medicine have helped, and he is better than most people think he is at a certain level.
If he has made it this far, it logically stands to reason he has another decade or two left in him. He beat the odds when he was 31, so he can still beat the odds.
I was supposed to die when I was 40, and I just passed that mark. By June I'll be 41, and if still alive it will either be God or medicine or a strong will to live that keeps me alive. The same, I expect, for Hawking.
he promised another Moon shot and increase NASA spending to mine the Moon for materials and maybe put a base there.
Next I supposed he won't keep his promise to close the doughnut hole in Medicare? He'll instead cut Medicare so it costs people like me on it more money?
Get with the program all of the crazy and stupid people have a new theory now. No more Flat Earthers but instead 18% believe that the Earth of Hallow instead. We have Hallow Earthers now instead of Flat Earthers.
18% could tell the difference between VHS Video Tape and DVD quality either.
85% of the people that download movie videos off of the BitTorrent networks can't tell the quality isn't HDTV quality either, and just someone with a video camera in a movie theater in China or Russia, and made a smaller resolution to download it faster.
Never underestimate the disabled. While his body fails, his brain is in tip top shape. He is brave for continuing on with a disease that tears his body apart.
He still has a good 10 to 20 years.
I myself am disabled, and people underestimate me as well. I have physical and mental illnesses that are tearing apart my body and mind, but I continue on myself. I understand a bit of what Hawking is going through. But not all of it. I am not as advanced in my disease as Hawking is in his. I use computers to communicate with the world, because I lack proper social skills and communication skills and cannot speak them verbally, but I am better using a computer to communicate for me.
When my son was 3 I gave him a Windows 98 machine with a 300 Mhz Pentium II processor and educational software like "Jumpstart Baby" and "Just Me and my Grandpa" installed on it.
Before that he got the $20 to $30 toy laptop, and when he didn't destroy that thing he got the real computer later.
Why do men who do that get felony convictions but women like Lori Drew who do it get a slap on the wrist and misdemeanor charges instead of being a convicted sex offender? She solicited the girl for sex and then told her the world would be better off without her and caused her to hang herself.
The average Internet troll does not seduce the victim for sex, but rather does personal attacks on them instead.
Only Kuro5hin and other shitty web sites do the "Shotgun mouthwash now!" troll. Some victims fall for that troll and kill themselves, is that the same as what Lori Drew did?
13 cents? About the price of a piece of toilet paper or toliet paper roll. Good enough to wipe one's rear-end with, but not enough to blow one's nose with.:)
For trying to sell us "Linux Licenses" in order to use Linux legally. Turns out they had no legal basis for those licenses, which is of course "fraud" via a civil court lawsuit.
Now how many Linux users are there? Let's get $1000 each.
Actually they fit the criteria of the other companies getting the bailouts:
#1 Can't balance a budget. #2 Stupid or insane CEOs and upper management. #3 Lobby Congresspeople to try and vote for certain bills to be passed so they owe them favors for a bailout. #4 Annoying corporate culture that makes no sense. #5 Pissed away most of their money on some stupid lawsuit. #6 Blames someone or something else for their financial woes instead of their bad management and bad accounting books.
Well AROS developers broke off and are now developing AnubisOS based on GNU/Linux with the AROS/Amiga GUI. It was unveiled at the AROS show and It is being kept a secret so who knows what it will be like in a few years when it is finished?
as many of their harassment of others lead them to suicide. Heck a few lead me to attempt suicide myself and should be held accountable for their actions. I've lost many friends to suicide because someone over the Internet told them to kill themselves. Kuro5hin and IWETHEY told me to kill myself and the world would be better off without me as well.
So if Lori Drew is found guilty then so are the rest of the Internet Trolls.
and Intel ran them out of business like so many others.
Intel ran Cyrix, Centaur, out of business and they got bought out. Intel stopped NEC (Remember the V20 CPU that replaced the 8088?), and almost ran VIA and AMD out of business.
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BitTorrent is used to distribute open source software and materials. You cannot just block BT because a few also use it for piracy it will hurt open source and you cannot throw the baby out with the bathwater.
That is because the definition of a fantastic president currently is someone who is not George W. Bush or a Bush clone like McCain was accused of being. Since Obama is a Liberal Democrat, he is automaticaly a fantastic president before he even takes office. But I should note that while he didn't take office yet he already announced that he will be breaking his promises as soon as he takes office, Usually the typical politican won't tell you that he breaks promises until after being in the office for a while, and breaks it by sneaking it into some unpopular bill as an "add on" and hope nobody notices he did the opposite of what he promised. But since Oabama is new to politics he announces the promises he will break after he is sworn in, via advanced notice.
Which is lower standards than usual. A fatanstic president used to be one that balanced the budget and used his veto power responsibility and worked with Congress to control spending and fix the economy and help create more jobs and prevent pointless wars from breaking out.
Actually such things as Tang, Goretext, the Microchip, Fiber optics, Fiber glass, etc were all products of NASA's spending billions to get a rocket to make it to the Moon and back.
The technology produced as a side-effect of making a Moon shot benefited our economy more than the billions spent on making the Moonshot.
For example, if we never invented the Microchip, we would never have computers small enough or use less power to be able to work in our homes and small offices. You'd still have dinosaur Mainframes that only Megacorporations could afford and the electric bill for such a thing would be scary as well.
If not for Fiber optic, there would be no Internet at least with Broadband speeds, we'd all still be at 56K BPS dial-up speeds and video and voice over Internet would be almost impossible and we'd sort of be in BBS and Telenet type text based services without a GUI web interface.
You also would not have NASA contractors buying supplies from other USA companies to keep people employed as they steadily sell raw materials to Boeing and Rockwell and other companies that work with NASA.
I think by gutting NASA and the Moonshots, Obama is pennywise and poundfoolish. In 5 to 10 years time, we'd have new technology using less power and a smaller space, so little power and fewer elements like mercury and other harmful substances that it would help fight global warming and peak oil, and develop a replacement fuel for oil/gas as it would perfect the fuel cell using hydrogen or water for fuel for use in new Moon buggies and Ares and Orion systems for backup power.
The NASA projects that suck up cash and don't give any in return are those Telescope projects, mapping the stars, and SETI the search for Extra Terrestrial Life, that seem to be NASA's nlack holes for sucking in the cash by the billions or trillions with nothing given in return.
Why are we wasting money on SETI? If an ET wants to talk to us, he/she will find a way to use a system that makes use of our primitive tech for him/her to communicate over. Obviously if aliens exist, they have a way to hide their communication signals from us using encryption that mimicks natural background noises and white noise so it is hard for our primitive computers to detect. Besides the fact that they are not talking to us, if they do exist, is proof that they are highly evolved and understand that we are not worth talking to and will be xenophobic towards their alien race and try to take over their ships and steal their technology.
Either download the BitTorrent version and claim "fair use" clause as a defense, optionally writing a check to the PO box of the publishing company for the retail price of the book to cover any legal problems (well I paid you $X and you cashed the check, so basically I bought the book, but in eBook format.) or another thing to do is check out rare book stores, usually book stores that deal in rare copies of the book.
But it can backfire. The Amiga Guru book was written in German and then English and someone scanned the book and made it an eBook on BitTorrent and made the author mad because it was a self-published book. So the original Amiga Guru book covered the AmigaOS 2.1 version and the new version would cover 3.1 and 4.0, but he got so mad he didn't publish the new book because of the piracy of the old book.
A pity because the Amiga Guru Book really helped developers by documenting the Amiga GUI and coding standards to follow to write commercial quality programs for the Amiga. It is a book that Amiga, Inc should have published themselves, hint hint to Amiga,Inc. publish a book like that to help promote the new Amiga systems and AmigaOS.
Now the Amiga Guru Book author claims he will only give a copy of the new Guru book to people who send him a copy of a rare Commodore 64 ROM Kernel book in German. Quid pro quo, help him find copies of another rare book and he will gladly give you a copy of his rare book.
By the way I'm looking for "101 BASIC Computer Games" and the sequel "More 101 BASIC Computer Games" but every place I check is sold out and it is out of print. In the early 1980's and late 1970's it wrote BASIC programs in the old version of BASIC that every 8 bit computer shared and had the source code to Eliza and Hunt the Wumps and some Zork clone written in BASIC called The Adventure or something. It isn't even in eBook format, a pity, as we lost an important piece of computer history. It even had typos and grammar and spelling errors in it when it was published. I think they typed up the whole thing on a typewriter or an early Word processor that lacked even spell check.
This is a post from Frank in my Pirate's mailing list group:
I think the human race needs to start thinking of space exploration as necessity.
Obama wants to create 2.5 million jobs for 2k+9. But the prob is that we need
1) work that needs to be done
2) negotiate a price that the workers are willing to work for, and the employer is willing to
pay.
Without those two things, it's like trying to use an electric motor to charge its own battery.
The truth is, the earth isn't big enough for everyone. We want to increase wealth for
everyone. To do so we have two options:
1) take it from someone else
2) go where there is unclaimed wealth
The great thing about space is that there is a lot of it. You see, if I have a candy bar, and
the teacher sees me with it says, "are you going to share with everyone?" I have no choice
but to put it away because by the time I divide it up, my piece will be too small.
But if I can go to where there's a truckload of candy, I can truly share with everyone. So it
is with outer space.
So when we think of space exploration as a necessity, we will have:
jobs in space
homes in space
nightclubs in space
shopping malls in space
restaurants in space
In other words, a sustainable economy!
At the rate he is degenerating at, I read a report that stated he had 10 to 20 years left before it gets so bad he will have even more serious problems. Advances in medicine have helped, and he is better than most people think he is at a certain level.
If he has made it this far, it logically stands to reason he has another decade or two left in him. He beat the odds when he was 31, so he can still beat the odds.
I was supposed to die when I was 40, and I just passed that mark. By June I'll be 41, and if still alive it will either be God or medicine or a strong will to live that keeps me alive. The same, I expect, for Hawking.
he promised another Moon shot and increase NASA spending to mine the Moon for materials and maybe put a base there.
Next I supposed he won't keep his promise to close the doughnut hole in Medicare? He'll instead cut Medicare so it costs people like me on it more money?
You used me, Obama, dammit, you used me!
Nobody believes that the world is flat anymore.
Get with the program all of the crazy and stupid people have a new theory now. No more Flat Earthers but instead 18% believe that the Earth of Hallow instead. We have Hallow Earthers now instead of Flat Earthers.
18% could tell the difference between VHS Video Tape and DVD quality either.
85% of the people that download movie videos off of the BitTorrent networks can't tell the quality isn't HDTV quality either, and just someone with a video camera in a movie theater in China or Russia, and made a smaller resolution to download it faster.
Never underestimate the disabled. While his body fails, his brain is in tip top shape. He is brave for continuing on with a disease that tears his body apart.
He still has a good 10 to 20 years.
I myself am disabled, and people underestimate me as well. I have physical and mental illnesses that are tearing apart my body and mind, but I continue on myself. I understand a bit of what Hawking is going through. But not all of it. I am not as advanced in my disease as Hawking is in his. I use computers to communicate with the world, because I lack proper social skills and communication skills and cannot speak them verbally, but I am better using a computer to communicate for me.
to give his voice box an accent. But now it will be a Canadian accent, eh? :)
Maybe he'll finally meet his soulmate? I heard Davros had moved to Canada as well to get away from Dr. Who. :)
Baby's First laptop might be a good idea.
When my son was 3 I gave him a Windows 98 machine with a 300 Mhz Pentium II processor and educational software like "Jumpstart Baby" and "Just Me and my Grandpa" installed on it.
Before that he got the $20 to $30 toy laptop, and when he didn't destroy that thing he got the real computer later.
for trying to seduce a minor under an alias.
Why do men who do that get felony convictions but women like Lori Drew who do it get a slap on the wrist and misdemeanor charges instead of being a convicted sex offender? She solicited the girl for sex and then told her the world would be better off without her and caused her to hang herself.
The average Internet troll does not seduce the victim for sex, but rather does personal attacks on them instead.
Only Kuro5hin and other shitty web sites do the "Shotgun mouthwash now!" troll. Some victims fall for that troll and kill themselves, is that the same as what Lori Drew did?
13 cents? About the price of a piece of toilet paper or toliet paper roll. Good enough to wipe one's rear-end with, but not enough to blow one's nose with. :)
McDonald's still makes crappy food no matter how many patents they apply for.
As Mad Magazine said in the 1970's "MMMM" or McDonald's Makes Messy Meals.
P.S. Big Mac secret sauce is really Thousand Island Dressing, but they still patented it anyway as a trade secret.
For trying to sell us "Linux Licenses" in order to use Linux legally. Turns out they had no legal basis for those licenses, which is of course "fraud" via a civil court lawsuit.
Now how many Linux users are there? Let's get $1000 each.
Actually I think The Devil is going to need to wear two winter coats and will be ice skating to work as Hell just froze over.
Next, the Chicago Cubs win the 2009 World Series. :)
It would be ironic if Novell or IBM bought out the SCO corpse and IP. :)
I think $3.5M is worth more than the current outstanding SCO stocks on the market. :)
Actually they fit the criteria of the other companies getting the bailouts:
#1 Can't balance a budget.
#2 Stupid or insane CEOs and upper management.
#3 Lobby Congresspeople to try and vote for certain bills to be passed so they owe them favors for a bailout.
#4 Annoying corporate culture that makes no sense.
#5 Pissed away most of their money on some stupid lawsuit.
#6 Blames someone or something else for their financial woes instead of their bad management and bad accounting books.
Well AROS developers broke off and are now developing AnubisOS based on GNU/Linux with the AROS/Amiga GUI. It was unveiled at the AROS show and It is being kept a secret so who knows what it will be like in a few years when it is finished?
as many of their harassment of others lead them to suicide. Heck a few lead me to attempt suicide myself and should be held accountable for their actions. I've lost many friends to suicide because someone over the Internet told them to kill themselves. Kuro5hin and IWETHEY told me to kill myself and the world would be better off without me as well.
So if Lori Drew is found guilty then so are the rest of the Internet Trolls.
and Intel ran them out of business like so many others.
Intel ran Cyrix, Centaur, out of business and they got bought out. Intel stopped NEC (Remember the V20 CPU that replaced the 8088?), and almost ran VIA and AMD out of business.
"morong" at least he can spell correctly. :)
I already have a hackaround for OSX and Windows DRM and it runs on both PCs and Macs. ;)