Steganography can be far more interesting than that. Especially when a post by DragonTHC on Slashdot means our New York assets, on grasscity.com means Chicago assets and penny-arcade means our Los Angeles assets. A Monday post means that work is going according to schedule, posting at an odd hour (7PM) as opposed to an even hour means that the message is true as opposed to possibly compromised, and the homepage that is linked contains a paragraph that is encrypted and tells me the name of a hotmail address with our common, shared password, that is being used as a drop-box for an encrypted file that has more information...
PS - I'm not stalking you, I just used the first couple google hits on "DragonTHC"...
Yup, most of the really really expensive stuff that has to do with pharma R&D has to do with government red tape and legal liability. Rather than giving pharma a free pass better to treat them equally and maybe work on the other end...
Hard work is not the only metric. You can work very very hard all your life to reinvent the wheel, and its usefulness to society is zero. How about inventing and marketing something useful that people actually want... oh yeah, it will sell itself. Will there be competition? Sure there will. So you better make damned sure your product is better than the other guy's.
Lawyers are always going on about "intent". So, where are they in this case? Oh wait no "intent" is just another tool used to put you in jail, not to help you get out.
You pay your telecommunication company for internet service, and they invest part of their revenue into operating and maintaining the means by which digital information can be "pirated". You are therefore a "pirate enabler".
Making "terrorist threats" has been a crime for a very long time.
It is a stupid, arbitrary excuse for a crime that is so ambiguous that the lawmakers responsible should die of shame. Oh dear - did I just make a terrorist threat against government officials? To the dungeon with me!
So randomly put people in jail because it's much easier than understanding that not everyone who says "I wish he was dead" or "I'll kill him" actually intends to carry out a murder. In fact it's a quite common expression. This is just more yankee hysteria. Well done America, keep flushing your "freedom" down the toilet.
Yep because the Keynseian school is doing an absolutely brilliant job at the moment, isn't it? Printed trillions, nothing happened, hey I know - let's print MORE trillions! Do you really honestly think that this is going to work? Every time a new dollar bill is stamped, we move a little closer to the total collapse of the GLOBAL economic system. The only jobs that will be created by continued printing will be the job of carrying money around in wheelbarrows to burn the bills as fuel.
Yeah let's believe the government's figures on how good a job the government is doing. Government has a vested interest in lying to you. Instead, why don't you do some research and try to find out what the price of some common items you use was 10, 20 or even 40 years ago, and do the math?
Either way, even a 6% inflation rate will cut your purchasing power in half every 12 years. That's the problem with percentages. People think things like 6% or even 2% is "not a lot", when actually they are all exponential functions.
Yes, because in Argentina you have to pay a tax of 25% for the privilege of exchanging your pesos for dollars. Using the black market gets around this 25%, but of course is tax evasion.
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Steganography can be far more interesting than that. Especially when a post by DragonTHC on Slashdot means our New York assets, on grasscity.com means Chicago assets and penny-arcade means our Los Angeles assets. A Monday post means that work is going according to schedule, posting at an odd hour (7PM) as opposed to an even hour means that the message is true as opposed to possibly compromised, and the homepage that is linked contains a paragraph that is encrypted and tells me the name of a hotmail address with our common, shared password, that is being used as a drop-box for an encrypted file that has more information...
PS - I'm not stalking you, I just used the first couple google hits on "DragonTHC"...
Yup, most of the really really expensive stuff that has to do with pharma R&D has to do with government red tape and legal liability. Rather than giving pharma a free pass better to treat them equally and maybe work on the other end...
You side-stepped the question.
And I'm curious as to why a fantasy book was cited as a reference at all. Perhaps I should try to apply passages from Tolkien to this issue as well?
Hard work is not the only metric. You can work very very hard all your life to reinvent the wheel, and its usefulness to society is zero. How about inventing and marketing something useful that people actually want... oh yeah, it will sell itself. Will there be competition? Sure there will. So you better make damned sure your product is better than the other guy's.
If patents were abolished, the only thing left to protect inventions is copyright.
No, the only thing left to protect inventions is innovation. You know. The way it was supposed to be.
Lawyers are always going on about "intent". So, where are they in this case? Oh wait no "intent" is just another tool used to put you in jail, not to help you get out.
Tell me how efficient they are when the whole grid goes down.
I guess it's much easier to "dumb down" the desktop instead of trying to make "smarter" phone apps.
No but they won't be able to drive around in Dotcom's sports cars anymore. Awww.
I would use the word "always".
You pay your telecommunication company for internet service, and they invest part of their revenue into operating and maintaining the means by which digital information can be "pirated". You are therefore a "pirate enabler".
Step 1, embrace... My how we forget.
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Making "terrorist threats" has been a crime for a very long time.
It is a stupid, arbitrary excuse for a crime that is so ambiguous that the lawmakers responsible should die of shame. Oh dear - did I just make a terrorist threat against government officials? To the dungeon with me!
So randomly put people in jail because it's much easier than understanding that not everyone who says "I wish he was dead" or "I'll kill him" actually intends to carry out a murder. In fact it's a quite common expression. This is just more yankee hysteria. Well done America, keep flushing your "freedom" down the toilet.
That's like saying the country of Guam, or the country of Puerto Rico. Gibraltar is a territory. Its inhabitants are British.
The same way you legislate paper money, which is also quite anonymous and fits in pockets, cookie jars and shoes.
Meh, the bill is going to get paid one way or another. But the rich have a lot more to lose.
You're dreaming. The minute said currency is adopted by a significant number of people, regulation will immediately follow.
Will you stop with this Austrian nonsense.
Yep because the Keynseian school is doing an absolutely brilliant job at the moment, isn't it? Printed trillions, nothing happened, hey I know - let's print MORE trillions! Do you really honestly think that this is going to work? Every time a new dollar bill is stamped, we move a little closer to the total collapse of the GLOBAL economic system. The only jobs that will be created by continued printing will be the job of carrying money around in wheelbarrows to burn the bills as fuel.
Now explain to him how he's being shifted into a higher tax bracket over time without the government having to do anything at all...
inflation has never even gone above 6%
Yeah let's believe the government's figures on how good a job the government is doing. Government has a vested interest in lying to you. Instead, why don't you do some research and try to find out what the price of some common items you use was 10, 20 or even 40 years ago, and do the math?
Either way, even a 6% inflation rate will cut your purchasing power in half every 12 years. That's the problem with percentages. People think things like 6% or even 2% is "not a lot", when actually they are all exponential functions.
Yes, because in Argentina you have to pay a tax of 25% for the privilege of exchanging your pesos for dollars. Using the black market gets around this 25%, but of course is tax evasion.
So imagine if UPS was not accountable at all if they kept losing your parcels, but kept billing you for them?