I used to play Tsunami. The wars were cool, but I hated the magical, overpowering nature of the backstab. I'm sorry, but armies made up of backstabbing thieves wouldn't get too far in reality...
How I graduated valedictorian at MIT with a CS degree and had to wash cars for a living because I couldn't find a job.
How everybody, you know, geeks and grandmas, will all switch to Linux and put custom ROMs into their no-copy DVD hardware and that will thwart the music industry. (After all, half of America is on the Internet, and if we all...)
Why scriptKiddies(TM) DOSing is bad, but scriptKiddies ripping music and sharing it around is good.
I took a break from chemistry for a semester (gotta love curves on MD-wannabee washout class of organic chemistry at U-Mich) I took the introductory CS class.
The teacher liked my well-coded, commented "Towers of Hanoi" so much that he used it as the example "solution" the following week. All my previous programming had been a handful of BASIC programs written on TRS-80's in high school averaging 10 lines each. I had found my calling.
What I want to know is what in God's name is the government doing setting what is, apparently, the max a company can charge rental stores for the purchase of a video.
The government's interest is in protecting the copyrights. Everything else is the decision of the copyright holder, greedy or not.
In fact, once mumblings of having the government send 15 or 20 billion dollars there way started, they began calving off tens of thousands of employees and throwing their wrists against their foreheads like a swooning antebellum debutante.
Having an account on AOL isn't looking so bad anymore is it? Let's see someone try to deny them. Steve Case has probably got dubya's personal phone number in his wallet.
The Great Karnak: May your daughter get into a ping-bomb war with the sysop of Mae East.
> If 1000 people walk down a backstreet past an
> empty building, 998 will just pass by. 2 will
> throw a rock through a window and spraypaint
> the walls.
> is the solution to call for old age homes to be
> built with fireproof walls and armed guards out
> front?
You do both, actually. You attack those who flew planes into your building and the countries that support them, and you build future buildings and upgrade older ones so they are able to withstand collisions by large planes and ferociously hot fires for four hours or more. 50% of the pillars surviving post crash + 1800 degrees on them for four hours would be a nice goal.
The problem with the hacker situation is that "we" define good hackers as those who steal music and software, and bad as those who steal bandwidth via DOS attacks.
Oil spills might contribute to GNP via the cleanup but also represent a lot of lost money. In that the oil is mostly lost, and the cleanup is for something that shouldn't have happened, it's a massive net loss to productivity.
Also, wealthier, freer nations keep their pipelines and tankers in better shape, and have less spillage. The amount lost in the former USSR's pipelines was on the order of I don't remember how many Valdez tankers per year.
As for quality of life, again it would be your definition, and oil spills don't count unless you show some actual detrimental effect to humanity. In other words, a world loaded with oil spills might, for example, have longer, healthier lifespans. It is the actual measurement of real people and their stuff that matters, not arbitrary pushbutton issues.
> as if there were some consensus in western
> thought that Utility prevails over all else.
What's the response (reaches into bag) oh, yeah!
It's surprising how quickly philosophies of arbitrariness fall by the wayside as they throw you up onto the slab and split your chest open and try to save your life. How quickly logic and reason and a recognition of an absolute reality that actually exists become important when one leaves the ivory tower...
I would argue the better goal is to spread out more. This will drive for more demand on oil, which will cause even further benefits of economy of scale, not to mention drive further effeciencies of production. I'll bet the quality of life of my people after 30-60 years exceeds yours. BTW, your choice on measurement of quality of life, too.
Except that we didn't get involved in, what was that country again? It was in Africa, and over 500,000 people were hacked to death, many more had limbs hacked off.
What was that country's name? I can't remember either.
No oil there -- no argument for the oil conspiracy theorists.
And we couldn't go in just to help, that would be forcing our views on another country's right to self-determination. Nah, let's just watch it on TV. "Hey, there's those guys in that silly country, what's'it's'name!"
Many libertarian types have fiercely logical minds and generally avoid such cheap shots as ad hominem attacks largely because they are sure, logically, of their position and feel no need to resort to such tactics to win the argument. An argument won only through rhetoric is a bad argument and does no one good. More importantly, it may be evidence that it could only be won thru rhetoric.
Curiously, though, capitalist, i.e. free, countries rage ahead of others in quality of life and advancing the quality of life.
It is because capitalism is based on freedom, i.e. a moral stance where people can't pull out a gun and take money from others, or put their competition out of business, that allows security in activities and promotes such risk taking to begin with.
The "downtrodden" in America are a hell of a lot better off than in other countries that are based on preventing the "downtroddenism".
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> one of the Online RPGs ran in to some trouble for
> simply having volunteer player arbitrators, as
> someone accused them of unfair labor practices
Live by the socialist sword, die by the socialist sword...
I used to play Tsunami. The wars were cool, but I hated the magical, overpowering nature of the backstab. I'm sorry, but armies made up of backstabbing thieves wouldn't get too far in reality...
How I graduated valedictorian at MIT with a CS degree and had to wash cars for a living because I couldn't find a job.
How everybody, you know, geeks and grandmas, will all switch to Linux and put custom ROMs into their no-copy DVD hardware and that will thwart the music industry. (After all, half of America is on the Internet, and if we all...)
Why scriptKiddies(TM) DOSing is bad, but scriptKiddies ripping music and sharing it around is good.
I took a break from chemistry for a semester (gotta love curves on MD-wannabee washout class of organic chemistry at U-Mich) I took the introductory CS class.
The teacher liked my well-coded, commented "Towers of Hanoi" so much that he used it as the example "solution" the following week. All my previous programming had been a handful of BASIC programs written on TRS-80's in high school averaging 10 lines each. I had found my calling.
What I want to know is what in God's name is the government doing setting what is, apparently, the max a company can charge rental stores for the purchase of a video.
The government's interest is in protecting the copyrights. Everything else is the decision of the copyright holder, greedy or not.
How much he gets paid, don't know.
I do know the title, though:
"Indiana Jones and Speilberg's Latest Girlfriend"
In fact, once mumblings of having the government send 15 or 20 billion dollars there way started, they began calving off tens of thousands of employees and throwing their wrists against their foreheads like a swooning antebellum debutante.
Having an account on AOL isn't looking so bad anymore is it? Let's see someone try to deny them. Steve Case has probably got dubya's personal phone number in his wallet.
The Great Karnak: May your daughter get into a ping-bomb war with the sysop of Mae East.
Either that or...
One word: caning
> If 1000 people walk down a backstreet past an
> empty building, 998 will just pass by. 2 will
> throw a rock through a window and spraypaint
> the walls.
One word: caning
> is the solution to call for old age homes to be
> built with fireproof walls and armed guards out
> front?
You do both, actually. You attack those who flew planes into your building and the countries that support them, and you build future buildings and upgrade older ones so they are able to withstand collisions by large planes and ferociously hot fires for four hours or more. 50% of the pillars surviving post crash + 1800 degrees on them for four hours would be a nice goal.
Yeah, I mean, what about using a handgun to kill someone who's trying to kill you.
So too, there were great IRC bot battles between the good guys and the bad guys.
The problem with the hacker situation is that "we" define good hackers as those who steal music and software, and bad as those who steal bandwidth via DOS attacks.
How soon we forget alt.fuck.the.skull.of.jesus, eh?
Yeah, there should be some sort of...internet keyword system.
> Particle physicists have the same problems with
> electrons (they appear point like with no
> structure)
Shooting them at each other with greater and greater energies, the only deflections ever seen are caused purely by charge. No "konking" is ever seen.
Bullshit. Where do you think America learned to do that?
Oil spills might contribute to GNP via the cleanup but also represent a lot of lost money. In that the oil is mostly lost, and the cleanup is for something that shouldn't have happened, it's a massive net loss to productivity.
Also, wealthier, freer nations keep their pipelines and tankers in better shape, and have less spillage. The amount lost in the former USSR's pipelines was on the order of I don't remember how many Valdez tankers per year.
As for quality of life, again it would be your definition, and oil spills don't count unless you show some actual detrimental effect to humanity. In other words, a world loaded with oil spills might, for example, have longer, healthier lifespans. It is the actual measurement of real people and their stuff that matters, not arbitrary pushbutton issues.
LEFT anarchist!
LEFT anarchist!
Please don't insult all anarchists.
> as if there were some consensus in western
> thought that Utility prevails over all else.
What's the response (reaches into bag) oh, yeah!
It's surprising how quickly philosophies of arbitrariness fall by the wayside as they throw you up onto the slab and split your chest open and try to save your life. How quickly logic and reason and a recognition of an absolute reality that actually exists become important when one leaves the ivory tower...
I would argue the better goal is to spread out more. This will drive for more demand on oil, which will cause even further benefits of economy of scale, not to mention drive further effeciencies of production. I'll bet the quality of life of my people after 30-60 years exceeds yours. BTW, your choice on measurement of quality of life, too.
That Columbus log must be faked!
Liar!
Except that we didn't get involved in, what was that country again? It was in Africa, and over 500,000 people were hacked to death, many more had limbs hacked off.
What was that country's name? I can't remember either.
No oil there -- no argument for the oil conspiracy theorists.
And we couldn't go in just to help, that would be forcing our views on another country's right to self-determination. Nah, let's just watch it on TV. "Hey, there's those guys in that silly country, what's'it's'name!"
It is an accurate comment on him, nevertheless.
Many libertarian types have fiercely logical minds and generally avoid such cheap shots as ad hominem attacks largely because they are sure, logically, of their position and feel no need to resort to such tactics to win the argument. An argument won only through rhetoric is a bad argument and does no one good. More importantly, it may be evidence that it could only be won thru rhetoric.
Curiously, though, capitalist, i.e. free, countries rage ahead of others in quality of life and advancing the quality of life.
It is because capitalism is based on freedom, i.e. a moral stance where people can't pull out a gun and take money from others, or put their competition out of business, that allows security in activities and promotes such risk taking to begin with.
The "downtrodden" in America are a hell of a lot better off than in other countries that are based on preventing the "downtroddenism".