In China, artists don't recieve royalties for CDs. Needless to say, this makes it a damn sight better than the U.S. where most record contracts will leave the artist in debt.
Down with the RIAA!
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The effects of powerful but inaudible vibrations on the human body and nervous system...
Hell, I bet you could even make their ears bleed if you juice it up enough.
After the fact, bin Laden in a video claimed to have made precise strucural calculations. He also spoke about prophetic dreams regarding the event and soccer...(hint: nutso)
What actually happened, was 15 men with knives attacked the country. They ridiculously overtrained for the job by attending flight schools (nearly getting themselves caught). The hard part of flying commercial aircraft happens to be take-off and landing. They didn't need that training, and therefore didn't need flight school. When it came time to hit the WTC, they merely pointed the airplanes at the building and did their best to hit dead on. Not a high level of sophistication there. One of the planes even missed its target (the capital building) and hit the pentagon instead. Another plane crashed because they neglected to properly secure the cockpit after capturing it.
Underestimating the terrorists on 9/11? The real problem was overestimating them afterwards. We still have not come to terms with the massive damage a poorly equiped, poorly educated, poorly organized, enemy can do to our country. If we had, reforming the INS would be job number one, not reorganizing CIA and FBI flowcharts for the department of Homeland Security.
This might be smart in a big picture sort of way, but practically it's dumb as fuck.
1) Most terrorist organizations share many features with (or are in fact) cults. The sort of individual who joins one of these terrorist organizations does not usually have the 'scientific mindset,' shall we say. Whenever you do wind up with terrorists smart enough to actually read the scientific literature, they are smart enough to hurt you no matter what you censor. The basic knowledge is already out there, and has been out there for years. Our greatest defense at the moment is our enemies' stupidity.
2) When you begin to censor journals, you quickly run into nagging questions like: "What exactly should I censor?" Practically, knowledge can't be pidgeon-holed into category A dangerous, category B harmless so easily. And even if it could, buearecratic organizations designed make that judgement always overstep their design goals through simple inertia. And what happens when you run into knowledge that is both dangerous in the wrong hands and helpful in the right hands?
3) Restricting science is fundamentally impractical. Any knowledge powerful enough to have great beneficial consequences is also powerful enough to present great dangers. Restricting what can be published in certain areas winds up being the same as restricting research. You make yourselves into Luddites, and it won't even work without a one-world dictatorship that can restrict research everywhere rather than in one place. And once you've gone that far, you have bigger things to worry about than terrorism.
Maybe it matters a slight amount that the thing was used by a democratic nation to end a dreadful war launched against them rather than by the Nazis to achieve world domination in a war of their own making?
More accurately, New Scientist reports that Red Squirrels in the Yukon are evolving due to local climate change. Which it proceeds to call global warming.
I imagine that what the government is worried about is someone using this device to impersonate shuttle control from the ground. A terrorist's dream...if the shuttle ever flies again, that is.
I think that human chess is still qualitatively better than computer chess. Exhaustion was a big factor in this last match up. The computer didn't feel it, but Kasparov did. Therefore the outcome doesn't tell us much about the level of the chess. If Kasparov could have played fresh every game, my guess is that his chess would have been better.
Human chess has qualities that computer chess still can't match up to. If we were really interested in measuring the level of computer chess we'd try to eliminate for factors such as weariness or stress as best we could. After all, chess is something more than that. We already know that computers will out-endure humans and there is nothing to be learned there.
You've come square up against what I like to call "the one big person" theory of foreign states. Anything that is both very complex and very unfamiliar is treated as one big person: France is a big crybaby. Canada is a wimp. Israel is just one big Holocaust survivor. America is arrogant. On and on. Sure the sterotypes might sometimes contribute some pithy insight, but once they begin to suck up all debate nothing constructive ever gets said again. It is fundamentally impossible to sum up a complex system in this manner. It leads to all sorts of problems. Not that this mode of thinking will ever go away, mind you.
Actually, I think the whole 'complex entity = person" idea is something very human, and applies to all sorts of things beyond foreign countries. Businesses, cultural groups, one's own government, all of them treated like this. Its the human mind's way of dealing I suppose. And to a degree, maybe it even makes sense. The individual human is one of the most complex systems on this planet. Therefore we try to model other complex systems with that model.
The manga are actually written in Kanji, but will sometimes have furigana (the little phonetic letters) beside the Kanji. This is certainly not true for all manga, though. I imagine that literacy levels aren't nearly as important for this as are cultural tradition and values.
Yeah, what are the odds, you know? Out of all the temperatures to choose from, they just happen to pick that one...Truth is truly stranger than fiction. Obviously, cosmological fine tuning of physical constants make the molecular bonds of Nitrogen just right for them to go liquid at exactly the same temperature as they were keeping this guy's jaw. Absolute proof that there is a God. You heard it here first.
Bit-torrent was on slashdot quite some time ago. Here is a place to download some Anime (unlicensed in the US). Notice how seven or eight terrabytes have been served over the last couple months. 250 gigabytes have been served today. The load on the server is almost non-existant. And the load on the server would remain the same if slashdot posted the link to its front page. The current video released today is averaging 8.21Mb/s as everyone downloads it at once. My DSL connection is maxed out as I download. Now, that's video on demand.
He thought it odd that there was very little information being exchanged between the shuttle and ground, so Randy Attwood, an amatuer astronomer started recording around 9:00 Eastern Time. The realplayer video superimposes the tape with video of the shuttle's disintegration.
1:05 (On the RP video) Houstan: "End Columbia Houstan, we see your tire pressure messages and did not copy your last."
Heh. I'd like to see the script kiddies and virus writers try to emulate stuff like this. Either it's legal and anyone can do it, or it's illegal and they shut everybody down.
You could have an anti-Microsoft toolbar. Anti-RIAA/MPAA/DMCA. Pro-linux toolbar. A Goatse toolbar...no that's too terrible. Ban it. Ban it all.
It's already more accurate than polygraphs. The dirty little secret about that, of course, is that a polygraph machine needs to be 'interpreted.' Polygraph operators are more or less dowsing for the truth. Remember all those keyboards back in the 80's that let the autistic comminicate with the rest of the world? Same kind of thing.
I often seed public databases with junk data, effectively rendering them useless. Sometimes I mis-reshelve books at the library (you should see the card catalog). I create bogus auctions on ebay under fake names. I distribute pdf's of gutenburg "ebooks" that actually contain hardcore pornography. It makes me smile whenever someone downloads Grimm's Fairy Tales. Oh, they're 'Fairy' tales all right. I always worked anonymously, because I thought this was illegal and I'd get in trouble if I were caught. Now I know that I'm a hero, and this account can finally be told.
I imagine that this is the kind of thing you get in reply: We here at the Ottawa Penis Enlargement factory are saddened that our business practices have caused you so much grief. We are especially worried that you have promised that you "will tell my friends not to do business with [us]." Ours is a quality establishment built on customer trust and satisfaction. After all, if you can't trust the Ottawa Penis Enlargement company, who can you trust?
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Heh, sorry dude.
In China, artists don't recieve royalties for CDs. Needless to say, this makes it a damn sight better than the U.S. where most record contracts will leave the artist in debt.
Down with the RIAA!
The effects of powerful but inaudible vibrations on the human body and nervous system...
Hell, I bet you could even make their ears bleed if you juice it up enough.
After the fact, bin Laden in a video claimed to have made precise strucural calculations. He also spoke about prophetic dreams regarding the event and soccer...(hint: nutso)
What actually happened, was 15 men with knives attacked the country. They ridiculously overtrained for the job by attending flight schools (nearly getting themselves caught). The hard part of flying commercial aircraft happens to be take-off and landing. They didn't need that training, and therefore didn't need flight school. When it came time to hit the WTC, they merely pointed the airplanes at the building and did their best to hit dead on. Not a high level of sophistication there. One of the planes even missed its target (the capital building) and hit the pentagon instead. Another plane crashed because they neglected to properly secure the cockpit after capturing it.
Underestimating the terrorists on 9/11? The real problem was overestimating them afterwards. We still have not come to terms with the massive damage a poorly equiped, poorly educated, poorly organized, enemy can do to our country. If we had, reforming the INS would be job number one, not reorganizing CIA and FBI flowcharts for the department of Homeland Security.
This might be smart in a big picture sort of way, but practically it's dumb as fuck.
1) Most terrorist organizations share many features with (or are in fact) cults. The sort of individual who joins one of these terrorist organizations does not usually have the 'scientific mindset,' shall we say. Whenever you do wind up with terrorists smart enough to actually read the scientific literature, they are smart enough to hurt you no matter what you censor. The basic knowledge is already out there, and has been out there for years. Our greatest defense at the moment is our enemies' stupidity.
2) When you begin to censor journals, you quickly run into nagging questions like: "What exactly should I censor?" Practically, knowledge can't be pidgeon-holed into category A dangerous, category B harmless so easily. And even if it could, buearecratic organizations designed make that judgement always overstep their design goals through simple inertia. And what happens when you run into knowledge that is both dangerous in the wrong hands and helpful in the right hands?
3) Restricting science is fundamentally impractical. Any knowledge powerful enough to have great beneficial consequences is also powerful enough to present great dangers. Restricting what can be published in certain areas winds up being the same as restricting research. You make yourselves into Luddites, and it won't even work without a one-world dictatorship that can restrict research everywhere rather than in one place. And once you've gone that far, you have bigger things to worry about than terrorism.
Maybe it matters a slight amount that the thing was used by a democratic nation to end a dreadful war launched against them rather than by the Nazis to achieve world domination in a war of their own making?
This fellow has decided to take Holocaust Revisionism to its logical conclusion. A lot of info on some of the great historical hoaxes.
If he had gotten a job instead of playing EQ, how much money would he have earned?
More accurately, New Scientist reports that Red Squirrels in the Yukon are evolving due to local climate change. Which it proceeds to call global warming.
I agree totally. But that doesn't stop the government from being concerned about it, you see.
I imagine that what the government is worried about is someone using this device to impersonate shuttle control from the ground. A terrorist's dream...if the shuttle ever flies again, that is.
I think that human chess is still qualitatively better than computer chess. Exhaustion was a big factor in this last match up. The computer didn't feel it, but Kasparov did. Therefore the outcome doesn't tell us much about the level of the chess. If Kasparov could have played fresh every game, my guess is that his chess would have been better.
Human chess has qualities that computer chess still can't match up to. If we were really interested in measuring the level of computer chess we'd try to eliminate for factors such as weariness or stress as best we could. After all, chess is something more than that. We already know that computers will out-endure humans and there is nothing to be learned there.
You've come square up against what I like to call "the one big person" theory of foreign states. Anything that is both very complex and very unfamiliar is treated as one big person: France is a big crybaby. Canada is a wimp. Israel is just one big Holocaust survivor. America is arrogant. On and on. Sure the sterotypes might sometimes contribute some pithy insight, but once they begin to suck up all debate nothing constructive ever gets said again. It is fundamentally impossible to sum up a complex system in this manner. It leads to all sorts of problems. Not that this mode of thinking will ever go away, mind you.
Actually, I think the whole 'complex entity = person" idea is something very human, and applies to all sorts of things beyond foreign countries. Businesses, cultural groups, one's own government, all of them treated like this. Its the human mind's way of dealing I suppose. And to a degree, maybe it even makes sense. The individual human is one of the most complex systems on this planet. Therefore we try to model other complex systems with that model.
The manga are actually written in Kanji, but will sometimes have furigana (the little phonetic letters) beside the Kanji. This is certainly not true for all manga, though. I imagine that literacy levels aren't nearly as important for this as are cultural tradition and values.
Yeah, what are the odds, you know? Out of all the temperatures to choose from, they just happen to pick that one...Truth is truly stranger than fiction. Obviously, cosmological fine tuning of physical constants make the molecular bonds of Nitrogen just right for them to go liquid at exactly the same temperature as they were keeping this guy's jaw. Absolute proof that there is a God. You heard it here first.
Would be more useful if we all knew what we were supposed to look like. Now where did I put my fake Linus Torvalds driver's license?
Bit-torrent was on slashdot quite some time ago. Here is a place to download some Anime (unlicensed in the US). Notice how seven or eight terrabytes have been served over the last couple months. 250 gigabytes have been served today. The load on the server is almost non-existant. And the load on the server would remain the same if slashdot posted the link to its front page. The current video released today is averaging 8.21Mb/s as everyone downloads it at once. My DSL connection is maxed out as I download. Now, that's video on demand.
I've transcribed the video from he link.
He thought it odd that there was very little information being exchanged between the shuttle and ground, so Randy Attwood, an amatuer astronomer started recording around 9:00 Eastern Time. The realplayer video superimposes the tape with video of the shuttle's disintegration.
1:05 (On the RP video) Houstan: "End Columbia Houstan, we see your tire pressure messages and did not copy your last."
1:12 Shuttle: "Roger, ah b---"
1:25-onwards static
Heh. I'd like to see the script kiddies and virus writers try to emulate stuff like this. Either it's legal and anyone can do it, or it's illegal and they shut everybody down.
You could have an anti-Microsoft toolbar. Anti-RIAA/MPAA/DMCA. Pro-linux toolbar.
A Goatse toolbar...no that's too terrible. Ban it. Ban it all.
I hear that they're considering naming the condition "Rosie O'Donnell Disease."
It's already more accurate than polygraphs. The dirty little secret about that, of course, is that a polygraph machine needs to be 'interpreted.' Polygraph operators are more or less dowsing for the truth. Remember all those keyboards back in the 80's that let the autistic comminicate with the rest of the world? Same kind of thing.
Post 9/11 Godwin's Law corollary: As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the chances of a comparison involving terrorism or bin Laden approaches one.
I therefore declare this thread over and whatever ideas you meant to express discredited.
I often seed public databases with junk data, effectively rendering them useless. Sometimes I mis-reshelve books at the library (you should see the card catalog). I create bogus auctions on ebay under fake names. I distribute pdf's of gutenburg "ebooks" that actually contain hardcore pornography. It makes me smile whenever someone downloads Grimm's Fairy Tales. Oh, they're 'Fairy' tales all right. I always worked anonymously, because I thought this was illegal and I'd get in trouble if I were caught. Now I know that I'm a hero, and this account can finally be told.
I've registered: cypherpunk/cypherpunk
I imagine that this is the kind of thing you get in reply: We here at the Ottawa Penis Enlargement factory are saddened that our business practices have caused you so much grief. We are especially worried that you have promised that you "will tell my friends not to do business with [us]." Ours is a quality establishment built on customer trust and satisfaction. After all, if you can't trust the Ottawa Penis Enlargement company, who can you trust?