If you can't prove something, then it is reasonable to assume that its not true.
Science doesn't seek to prove, it seeks to disprove.
Most things aren't exactly provable, they just have quite a bit of evidence in their favor. Proofs themselves are just taking conclusions and tracing them back to either errors in logic or raw premises. For all the data that exists in the universe, most things "proven" hit an error somewhere before they hit all of the premises from which they are founded.
I'm not american, and we do have national ID cards, we've had them forever and no one ever gave a damn about it, since we aren't into conspiracy theories and the whole fearing the government thing...
No offense, but we Americans have more of a government to be afraid of. We cherish anonymity, because in our country, the government is the servant of the people. Bush isn't our elected leader, he's our elected servant. We don't want our servants to gain power over us that could easily be used against us.
If you look at things like the War on Drugs, Waco, Alien and Sedition Acts, we are very concerned with maintaining self-rule. As we enter a more and more modern age, that self-rule is ironally reverting to more of a parliamentary monarchy, like Britain had after the Magna Carta.
America's corporatatism and consumerism are what really offend a lot of these Muslim countries. We can pursue an isolationist foreign policy but still 'invade' countries with our culture.
I'm sorry, I re-read my post and realized it could sound a bit smarmy and condescending. I actually was just being light-hearded. Please don't read it like you would the typical Slashdot I'm-smarter-than-you-and-I'll-prove-it rebuttal.
Nothing like a foot on the brake and a foot on the gas to get you over nasty stuff.
Ever heard of heel-and-toe driving?
I haven't mastered it yet, but it's a more difficult part of manual transmission control. You work the clutch with the left leg, and use the heel of your right foot to brake, and the toe to accelerate. You can handle subtle and sudden changes as well, but it requires tons of practice.
But if you master it, you are certainly a l337 driver. Like, top 99.999% of all the drivers out there.
AND I get better gas milage AND the truck is lighter and less complex - meaning "more reliable".
Disclaimer: I drive a stick and love it
Ok, claiming you get 'better' gas mileage by going manual on a big rig like that is like claiming you save on your energy bill by bringing the heat down from 100 degrees to 95.
If you downshifted, the car would have still redlined, but it wouldn't have been going 95 mph. If you downshifted all the way to second, you would have probably ended up going like 40 mph tops.
Of course, anyone who's ever driven a stick wouldn't try shifting down to first gear going 40.
And from there back into the hands of the rich. It doesn't "trickle down" at all.
Fact: rich people invest their money. They may sit on it, but it will sit in a mutual fund or stock or something designed to accumulate more wealth. This is good.
I read the transcript of that debate last week and it amazes me that GWBush still has the balls to stand in front of people and talk about it when he managed to bomb the f#@$ out of a country for no rhyme or reason.
There was rhyme or reason. Whether or not said reasons were substantial, or actually based on evidence, is another question.
Being from rural Southern Illinois, I know something about the urban-rural dynamic. Being from Alaska, you really don't. Juneau and Anchorage, simply aren't that big.
Being from Alaska and all, I must add that Fairbanks is the second largest city in Alaska, by about 50,000 people.
Forget about the intent. The effect will be companies moving even more production to countries where lax environmental laws mean lower costs.
I'm all for saving the planet, but I want the whole planet saved, not for all production to move into a few "exempt" areas.
Think of the Chinese people. 80% of the men there already smoke. In all seriousness, why would you allow them to suffer from even more pollution caused by fab outsourcing?
I lived in China for a while. The Hong Kong/Guanzhou area makes LA seem like the swiss alps. They have just as many cars, and worse environmental standards. And massive, unregulated factories.
Bill Maher often had intelligent commentary, but I don't miss B-level celebrities trying to convince the world they're still relevant with hackneyed and trite positions on every inane issue which they feel compelled to thrust into the discussion despite Maher's best efforts at keeping the conversation above the high school level..
What you and the service deprive the copyright holder is money which would be earned through resale of the item to you. If you are willfully buying stolen goods, you are breaking the law.
For reasons I have explained elsewhere in this thread, I maintain that piracy isn't theft. More importantly, considering it theft puts the focus on the downloader, not the distributor.
The analogy that comes to mind is knowingly buying a "hot" stereo. Definately illegal and morally reprehensible, but the real problem is people stealing stereos and selling them. This isn't that close, since the stereo theif has no right to steal the stereo, when a distributor usually has the right to personal use of the media.
I'll give you an analogy. say farmer A has a bull and is willing to sell use of this bull to farmer B to inseminate his cows. Now say that farmer B does not want to pay for the service and so he sneaks into the farm of farmer A and steals bull sperm. If farmer B inseminates his cows with it and resells the calfs, he has not only stolen the bull sperm but also deprived farmer A of potential revenue from his bull and has profited from selling his calfs.
It's more like farmer A sells farmer B the sperm for his own use, and farmer B genetically copies the sperm and sells it (or gives it away) to farmers C, D, E, and F. Everyone seems up in arms about farmes C, D, E, and F 'stealing' farmer A's sperm, because they've obtained it without a license, but the person that's really screwed farmer A out of his money is farmer B, who hasn't actually stolen anything.
My point is that by calling piracy theft, we've shifted the blame onto farmers C, D, E, and F, who are only stealing in a butchered sense of the word. The real culprit is farmer B, who hasn't stolen, but has committed the greatest crime.
Sort of. What I really mean is that when you steal, there are two parties involved--the thief and the victim. When you duplicate copyrighted content and distribute it, there are three--the copyright holder, the distributor, and the downloader.
What sucks about stealing is that when I steal from you, you now no longer have whateven I stole. In piracy, the distributor is neither a theif nor a victim. The same applies for the downloader. The copyright holder is certainly the victim, and the other two combine to perform a role that is sort of like stealing, but not quite.
No one loses anything, but one person obtains something illegaly. It is natural to point the finger to the downloader because of this logic, but actually the distributor is doing the most damage.
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Science doesn't seek to prove, it seeks to disprove.
Most things aren't exactly provable, they just have quite a bit of evidence in their favor. Proofs themselves are just taking conclusions and tracing them back to either errors in logic or raw premises. For all the data that exists in the universe, most things "proven" hit an error somewhere before they hit all of the premises from which they are founded.
I'm not american, and we do have national ID cards, we've had them forever and no one ever gave a damn about it, since we aren't into conspiracy theories and the whole fearing the government thing...
No offense, but we Americans have more of a government to be afraid of. We cherish anonymity, because in our country, the government is the servant of the people. Bush isn't our elected leader, he's our elected servant. We don't want our servants to gain power over us that could easily be used against us.
If you look at things like the War on Drugs, Waco, Alien and Sedition Acts, we are very concerned with maintaining self-rule. As we enter a more and more modern age, that self-rule is ironally reverting to more of a parliamentary monarchy, like Britain had after the Magna Carta.
America's corporatatism and consumerism are what really offend a lot of these Muslim countries. We can pursue an isolationist foreign policy but still 'invade' countries with our culture.
OIL HITS $53.25...
Unemployment rate remains at 5.4%...
'585,000 jobs have been lost since President Bush took office'...
Those are the first story headlines I read on the website.
I'm sorry, I re-read my post and realized it could sound a bit smarmy and condescending. I actually was just being light-hearded. Please don't read it like you would the typical Slashdot I'm-smarter-than-you-and-I'll-prove-it rebuttal.
Ever heard of heel-and-toe driving?
I haven't mastered it yet, but it's a more difficult part of manual transmission control. You work the clutch with the left leg, and use the heel of your right foot to brake, and the toe to accelerate. You can handle subtle and sudden changes as well, but it requires tons of practice.
But if you master it, you are certainly a l337 driver. Like, top 99.999% of all the drivers out there.
AND I get better gas milage AND the truck is lighter and less complex - meaning "more reliable".
Disclaimer: I drive a stick and love it
Ok, claiming you get 'better' gas mileage by going manual on a big rig like that is like claiming you save on your energy bill by bringing the heat down from 100 degrees to 95.
Of course, anyone who's ever driven a stick wouldn't try shifting down to first gear going 40.
Fact: rich people invest their money. They may sit on it, but it will sit in a mutual fund or stock or something designed to accumulate more wealth. This is good.
Try the 10th generation, the X-Box X.
Probably in the 2030 X-Games.
I read the transcript of that debate last week and it amazes me that GWBush still has the balls to stand in front of people and talk about it when he managed to bomb the f#@$ out of a country for no rhyme or reason.
There was rhyme or reason. Whether or not said reasons were substantial, or actually based on evidence, is another question.
Being from Alaska and all, I must add that Fairbanks is the second largest city in Alaska, by about 50,000 people.
Our waters look way better, for example.
There is more to pollution than CO2 emission. Much more.
I'm all for saving the planet, but I want the whole planet saved, not for all production to move into a few "exempt" areas.
Think of the Chinese people. 80% of the men there already smoke. In all seriousness, why would you allow them to suffer from even more pollution caused by fab outsourcing?
I lived in China for a while. The Hong Kong/Guanzhou area makes LA seem like the swiss alps. They have just as many cars, and worse environmental standards. And massive, unregulated factories.
No, he said he installed Debian, not Gentoo.
There is a lot in the EULA which would easily hold up in court but really stinks.
I am a happy user of both Crux and a '94 Mazda pickup--manual tranny.
Can you point to any document that shows how to do it?
Why can't we have a release without someone piping in with how Crux is inferior because it doesn't have something like portage or apt?
Crux isn't for everyone. Besides, it does have ports+prt-get.
Bill Maher often had intelligent commentary, but I don't miss B-level celebrities trying to convince the world they're still relevant with hackneyed and trite positions on every inane issue which they feel compelled to thrust into the discussion despite Maher's best efforts at keeping the conversation above the high school level..
*gasp*
For reasons I have explained elsewhere in this thread, I maintain that piracy isn't theft. More importantly, considering it theft puts the focus on the downloader, not the distributor.
The analogy that comes to mind is knowingly buying a "hot" stereo. Definately illegal and morally reprehensible, but the real problem is people stealing stereos and selling them. This isn't that close, since the stereo theif has no right to steal the stereo, when a distributor usually has the right to personal use of the media.
I'll give you an analogy. say farmer A has a bull and is willing to sell use of this bull to farmer B to inseminate his cows. Now say that farmer B does not want to pay for the service and so he sneaks into the farm of farmer A and steals bull sperm. If farmer B inseminates his cows with it and resells the calfs, he has not only stolen the bull sperm but also deprived farmer A of potential revenue from his bull and has profited from selling his calfs.
It's more like farmer A sells farmer B the sperm for his own use, and farmer B genetically copies the sperm and sells it (or gives it away) to farmers C, D, E, and F. Everyone seems up in arms about farmes C, D, E, and F 'stealing' farmer A's sperm, because they've obtained it without a license, but the person that's really screwed farmer A out of his money is farmer B, who hasn't actually stolen anything.
My point is that by calling piracy theft, we've shifted the blame onto farmers C, D, E, and F, who are only stealing in a butchered sense of the word. The real culprit is farmer B, who hasn't stolen, but has committed the greatest crime.
Sort of. What I really mean is that when you steal, there are two parties involved--the thief and the victim. When you duplicate copyrighted content and distribute it, there are three--the copyright holder, the distributor, and the downloader.
What sucks about stealing is that when I steal from you, you now no longer have whateven I stole. In piracy, the distributor is neither a theif nor a victim. The same applies for the downloader. The copyright holder is certainly the victim, and the other two combine to perform a role that is sort of like stealing, but not quite.
No one loses anything, but one person obtains something illegaly. It is natural to point the finger to the downloader because of this logic, but actually the distributor is doing the most damage.