More importantly: do you actually think they need the money? They're participants in a political power play.. their already well backed by their party.
I prefer the parallel to the civil rights movement. Rosa Parks was arrested, tried, and convicted for disorderly conduct and violating a local ordinance. There's no little ways to practice civil disobedience of copyright laws.. if you want to stand up and be counted you've gotta get the attention of big media, and that means sweeping acts like the Pirate Bay. These guys are heroes. They're putting their asses on the line for our right to copy - may it be equal to everyone else's - end copyright now.
A writ of mandamus or simply mandamus, which means "we command" in Latin, is the name of one of the prerogative writs in the common law, and is "issued by a superior court to compel a lower court or a government officer to perform mandatory or purely ministerial duties correctly".
I'm a big ran of O'Neill, but I gotta wonder what exactly he was smoking when he suggested that we were capable of building them with 1970s technology. Island Three was to be two counter rotating cylinders, each 3km in radius and 30km long, as well as a 15km radius ring of spheres for farming. That's a hell of a lot of steel. Each cylinder is 566 sq km.. of undeclared thickness.
You're an AC, so you're probably long gone, but hey, maybe some other AC idiot will reply.
Exactly what harm are you receiving by these actions that "interferes with my right to Be Left The Fuck Alone". Cause that's why people are not allowed to swing their fists at your face... cause you suffer harm as a result.
Add a Multi-touch Screen in the back with Google Maps or something similar, and support multiple languages. Provide status updates of where you are, what route is being taken, and how long it will take to get to your destination. The system can also provide tourist information and, yes, advertising. There should be no need to speak with the driver. This will ease the transition to driverless taxis, once that technology becomes available.
Introduce a "taxi-card" smartcard payment system.. but also accept cash and credit cards. They can do this at the supermarket, I don't see why they can't do it in the back of a taxi.
Provide an online booking system for taxis and, ya know, actually show up when you say you will.
Ya know what else is astronomically more expensive? Getting power from a desert to where it is needed, and buying all that land in a desert. I'm not saying SSP is remotely close to being cost effective yet, but there's simply more to crunching the numbers than you think there is.
Of course, this requires a whole lot of sleaziness, excellent people manipulation skills, and a complete lack of any ethics whatsoever.
And if you have all that and also know how to work a computer, you'd already be CEO of a startup company, surely, and be milking those suckers called "venture capitalists".
Friend of mine seriously considered "investing" in a Ponzi scheme. Even after I explained to him how it works he was still thinking about it. Why? Cause he considers himself smarter than the guy doing the scheme. The conversation went a little like this:
Bob: Have you heard of these short term money market investments? Me: Heh, these.. what.. investments? Bob: short term.. money.. you give them money and a few weeks later they give you 100% return. Me: Oh really.. what are they investing in? Bob: Doesn't say.. I mean, that makes sense, if you knew what to invest in you wouldn't need them right? Me: It's a scam. Bob: Really? Their web site looks legit. Me: Web developers are pretty cheap ya know. Bob: Well I've search around for them and I've not found anyone bad mouthing them. Me: Maybe they change their name every week.. or maybe they're doing the long con. Bob: I think they're legit man.. umm.. long con? What do you mean? Me: How much are they asking for? Bob: Not that much, only a few hundred. Me: So if you invest a few hundred and in two weeks time they give you double your money back and then ask you to reinvest that and give a few hundred more, you would right? Bob: Well, yeah, I guess.. maybe a few times. Me: So if, say, on the third time they said they really needed to you pump in twice as much as you have already given them or they won't be able to give you back your investment.. you would right? Bob: Well, I guess, I mean, they'd have a good history by then. Me: After just 3 cycles? Bob: Yeah.. Me: You're a sucker. Bob: No.. I'd take the money before then I think. Me: So if they ask you for your phone number and call you up, will you talk to them? Bob: Sure. Me: And you'd give them your bank info. Bob: Uhh.. umm.. I guess so. Me: Yeah, you're a sucker. Bob: I think I'll give em the first hundred and then take their money on the first cycle. Me: I think they'll see you coming and make sure you never get that first "investment" back.
(Bob isn't his real name, but if you're reading this M... you know who you are).
Pretty sure they have nothing to do with the x25 protocol, and there's a whole lot of other combinations of single letters and numbers, so why overload an existing term?
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More importantly: do you actually think they need the money? They're participants in a political power play.. their already well backed by their party.
I prefer the parallel to the civil rights movement. Rosa Parks was arrested, tried, and convicted for disorderly conduct and violating a local ordinance. There's no little ways to practice civil disobedience of copyright laws.. if you want to stand up and be counted you've gotta get the attention of big media, and that means sweeping acts like the Pirate Bay. These guys are heroes. They're putting their asses on the line for our right to copy - may it be equal to everyone else's - end copyright now.
A writ of mandamus or simply mandamus, which means "we command" in Latin, is the name of one of the prerogative writs in the common law, and is "issued by a superior court to compel a lower court or a government officer to perform mandatory or purely ministerial duties correctly".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandamus
Obviously. I mean, come on, it's a prerogative writs and stuff.
no, they restart automatically.. I mean, hey! I don't have any...........
Takes effort to startup the programs that I keep running all the time on it.
Takes more effort to script them so I don't have to spend effort starting them up on every reboot.
And that means rebooting.
Fuck that.
I'm a big ran of O'Neill, but I gotta wonder what exactly he was smoking when he suggested that we were capable of building them with 1970s technology. Island Three was to be two counter rotating cylinders, each 3km in radius and 30km long, as well as a 15km radius ring of spheres for farming. That's a hell of a lot of steel. Each cylinder is 566 sq km .. of undeclared thickness.
You're an AC, so you're probably long gone, but hey, maybe some other AC idiot will reply.
Exactly what harm are you receiving by these actions that "interferes with my right to Be Left The Fuck Alone". Cause that's why people are not allowed to swing their fists at your face... cause you suffer harm as a result.
So your problem is with freedom.
That'd be fucking nice.
Add a Multi-touch Screen in the back with Google Maps or something similar, and support multiple languages. Provide status updates of where you are, what route is being taken, and how long it will take to get to your destination. The system can also provide tourist information and, yes, advertising. There should be no need to speak with the driver. This will ease the transition to driverless taxis, once that technology becomes available.
Introduce a "taxi-card" smartcard payment system.. but also accept cash and credit cards. They can do this at the supermarket, I don't see why they can't do it in the back of a taxi.
Provide an online booking system for taxis and, ya know, actually show up when you say you will.
Actually, most physicists believe the LHC will fail to find the Higgs and in doing so give some hints as to why the Standard Model is broken.
Most physicists are optimistic like that.
Ya know what else is astronomically more expensive? Getting power from a desert to where it is needed, and buying all that land in a desert. I'm not saying SSP is remotely close to being cost effective yet, but there's simply more to crunching the numbers than you think there is.
Of course, this requires a whole lot of sleaziness, excellent people manipulation skills, and a complete lack of any ethics whatsoever.
And if you have all that and also know how to work a computer, you'd already be CEO of a startup company, surely, and be milking those suckers called "venture capitalists".
How much is tinyurl valued at today?
You lose a lot of money, and you learn one way NOT to lose your money, when it's far too late.
Sounds like someone went to Brown.
Friend of mine seriously considered "investing" in a Ponzi scheme. Even after I explained to him how it works he was still thinking about it. Why? Cause he considers himself smarter than the guy doing the scheme. The conversation went a little like this:
Bob: Have you heard of these short term money market investments?
Me: Heh, these.. what.. investments?
Bob: short term.. money.. you give them money and a few weeks later they give you 100% return.
Me: Oh really.. what are they investing in?
Bob: Doesn't say.. I mean, that makes sense, if you knew what to invest in you wouldn't need them right?
Me: It's a scam.
Bob: Really? Their web site looks legit.
Me: Web developers are pretty cheap ya know.
Bob: Well I've search around for them and I've not found anyone bad mouthing them.
Me: Maybe they change their name every week.. or maybe they're doing the long con.
Bob: I think they're legit man.. umm.. long con? What do you mean?
Me: How much are they asking for?
Bob: Not that much, only a few hundred.
Me: So if you invest a few hundred and in two weeks time they give you double your money back and then ask you to reinvest that and give a few hundred more, you would right?
Bob: Well, yeah, I guess.. maybe a few times.
Me: So if, say, on the third time they said they really needed to you pump in twice as much as you have already given them or they won't be able to give you back your investment.. you would right?
Bob: Well, I guess, I mean, they'd have a good history by then.
Me: After just 3 cycles?
Bob: Yeah..
Me: You're a sucker.
Bob: No.. I'd take the money before then I think.
Me: So if they ask you for your phone number and call you up, will you talk to them?
Bob: Sure.
Me: And you'd give them your bank info.
Bob: Uhh.. umm.. I guess so.
Me: Yeah, you're a sucker.
Bob: I think I'll give em the first hundred and then take their money on the first cycle.
Me: I think they'll see you coming and make sure you never get that first "investment" back.
(Bob isn't his real name, but if you're reading this M... you know who you are).
Soon all there will be left are videos that, bluntly, nobody wants to watch.
Videos of someone's cat doing something stupid/cute will always be popular.
You'd be surprised how quickly a sucker learns after his money is gone forever. Sounds like a cheap education to me.
This is it, at its finest.
The SWIFT and other banking networks still use x.25. It's a rule of information technology that nothing is ever thrown away.
Pretty sure they have nothing to do with the x25 protocol, and there's a whole lot of other combinations of single letters and numbers, so why overload an existing term?
As I said, I don't care about their stupid music sharing crap. I care about people thinking that binaries hide things. They don't.
Shame you got modded down, I thought your comment was funny.
Yes, my self-important proclamation is all you have to go on.
Unless, you know, you do some of your own research. But what's the likelihood of that?
Yeah, good point, but it's certainly not the case here.