You WILL be discriminated against regardless of a national ID or not, as
long as people have a reason for discriminating against you.
You're right that few need an ID card to tell that you are Asian.However, if your government wanted to eliminate ALL Asians, they wouldn't
get far without cataloguing them all.
Religions are equally likely to be discriminated against and aren't as obvious.
What you should be fighting isn't a national ID, but the abuse of databases
that record personal information. Such as the ones used to single out Japanese
citizens (US, World War II), communists (US, 50s, 60s) or muslims (US, 2001-current).
A very good point. But how DOES one restrict access to such a database
to people who will never allow anyone to abuse it?
No need for an ID card. People in Darfur get killed in a Genocide without
an ID card.
So you don't need a database to kill indiscriminately. You do
need one to persecute distinct groups. Can you believe that the
government are already considering putting everyone's ethnicity in their database?
My point is that using this argument goes against what you like to achieve,
because people stop taking you seriously then. You have an ID card anyway which
is your passport (or driver's license). What if the government just declares
that everybody has to carry their passport from now on? Same effect without
the new ID card.
You obviously have little idea of what the government is proposing. I
wish you were unique in that regard but most people are clueless.
Currently, government plans are that the card need not be carried.
Until recently, access to this database was restricted to government employees,
their friends, their friends' neighbours etc. The only real concession
Blunkett has made to the damning criticism is allowing you to find out (all of?) what
they've stored about you.
The database will also publish a unique number for you, which banks & flight
companies will obviously use, hence allowing any future government to discriminate
against you based on your finances and travel.
Once you and your unique ID number are interchangeable, it will be used in
every single database logging your activities (currently including internet
access, phone records, store cards & congestion charging).
Of course, by the time any really dangerous government gets in, this database
will also hold your medical records, DNA & movements tracked by CCTV.
You better hope that government likes what it finds.
DVD is good enough for most of us, just as CDs are. To watch High Definition TV, we'll need new TVs as well as players just to watch a handful of films. Few are going to invest $2k in this technology until we're broadcasting in HDTV.
Dr Yang Jwing Ming suggests that this productivity difference is due to the "natural" magnetic polarity of the human body and how the Earth's magnetic field helps or hinders that depending whether you are in the North or South Hemisphere.
The Arwen story provides a lot of relief from the endless stuggle and angst about Sauron destroying Middle Earth. It also explains the Elves' (lack of) involvement and the Last Ship scene.
I'd also suggest it adds a subtle magical side to the film, which would otherwise be restricted to Galadriel's mirror, The Ring effects & Gandalf's charge at Helm's Deep.
Oh yeah, Arwen is also stunning...
I'd have cut the Aragorn nearly drowning scenes, although they say Viggo nearly did drown. They are utterly useless to the plot.
How do you think Nazi Germany rounded up and murdered 6 million Jews in a few years?
Remember Thomas J. Watson's assertion that only 6 computers would be require worldwide? Well, IBM supplied at least one to the Nazis.
Still don't think it could happen in America?
I'd have thought it was obvious that your democracy isn't working well enough to take these kinds of risks.
Any information stored on computer about you can be used to discriminate against you. The more organised and freely available that information is, the more easily you can be persecuted.
How do you think Nazi Germany rounded up and murdered 6 million Jews in a few years?
Remember Thomas J. Watson's assertion that only 6 computers would be require worldwide? Well, they supplied at least one to the Nazis.
Still don't think it could happen in America?
I'd have thought it was obvious that your democracy isn't working well enough to take these kinds of risks.
Any information stored on computer about you can be used to discriminate against you. The more organised and freely available that information is, the more easily you can be persecuted.
I'd be surprised if Halo 1 didn't account for most XBox sales.
Think about that. Bungie weren't far off releasing Halo for PC when M$ bought them. We then had to wait 18 months for the XBox port, and another 24 months for the more-or-less identical PC version.
Regardless, sugar is a carbohydrate and when your body is functioning
normally your body will store unused carbohydrates as fat, barring
those which are expelled from the body as waste.
Wrong. When your body is functioning normally, it will increase your
metabolism, probably make you hyperactive and thereby burn off the excess calories.
You are forgetting how most people's weight changes very little regardless
of how much they eat.
More disorders also means more money for the drug companies. Unlike counsellors, these companies hold extraordinarily influence over the US government, FDA & American Psychiatric Association (who write the DSM). They also lack any ethics that most therapists DO have. GlaxoSmithKline was recently found to been lying about Paxil's effectiveness whilst suppressing research showing that it actually harmed children.
Whilst I agree that most therapists are ineffective, the problem is that they never get punished for it. The most successful therapist I know is also the least effective and is in fact dangerous.
That's untrue. MS pre-selecting IE does not preclude others from competing.
That's a blatantly untrue statement. It makes it more difficult. That's a big
difference.
It's still immoral, probably illegal and causing incredible amounts of harm
to innovation and productivity.
The courts did nothing to MS. So ask yourself. Is there more or less competition
than there was in the 90's?
Irrelevant. The issue is whether Microsoft's competitors are allowed
to compete fairly in this so-called free market.
How is that possible if MS was able to do what the government allege? If
MS had an illegal monopoly on operating systems for x86 computers, how come
there are more now than at anytime in history? How come users have dozens more
choices than ever?
And if MS leveraged the operating system lock up browsers, how come we
have more choice now than ever for browsers? How come on x86 alone there are
at least 4 major choices for quality web-browsing?
Because while hardware has advanced in accordance with Moore's Law, the Microsoft-dominated
software industry has stagnated. People have got so dissatisfied with
your corrupt government and what the monopolised market provides that they actually
had to invent a whole new form of production and freely
donate huge amounts of time to it.
I've never seen that happen in any other field. The situation is just
plain bizarre. No wonder OSS suffers credibility.
The government was wrong. MS had a large marketshare, but short of patenting
everything in sight, it is impossible to have a monopoly on intellectual property
like software.
No, you are wrong. Every single one of your arguments has been effectively
rebutted and your post merely serves to highlight you as the Microsoft lackey
that you
are.
David Blunkett, the Home Secretary is creating a compulsory database of every UK citizen's photo, fingerprints & retina scan. It is inevitable that our web, phone, banking, credit card, store card & travelling records will be linked to it. He is also giving permission for the police to take our DNA samples without our ever knowing.
Blunkett has also discarded vast numbers of complaints and ignored warnings from both his own Select Committee and the Information Commisioner.
Not only will this database go ahead without a national referendum, it is also bypassing any vote or debate in our sole democratic process, the House of Commons.
I believe the ??AA themselves are the ones doing the prosecuting, and thus,
paying for the litigation. I suppose public dollars may be going towards the
defendants' legal bills, but public defenders are relatively cheap, and these
are people who, after all, broke the law.
I think he's saying that your country has bigger things to worry about than
chasing file swappers.
>I don't want that money wasted imprisoning swappers.
AFAIK, copyright infringement is a civil crime, not a felony. That means
no prison time. They'll be fined. Do you have any evidence to suggest that file
swappers are actually being jailed?
I guess you didn't read the article, or even the summary that your response
was supposed to be relevant to. I quote: an escalation that
could result in jail time for file swappers.
The law being changed is one that will allow file swappers to be jailed for
counterfeiting.
>I don't care to bear the social costs of ruining the lives of swappers.
Ruining the lives? How is a $3000 civil settlement ruining
their lives? Besides, there's an easy way to avoid having your life ruined
by a fine: DON'T BREAK THE LAW!
He's not in control of who else swaps files. He does have a right to
express his opinion, especially on how his tax dollars are spent.
Do you know anything? Everything you said was so far off-base, I can only
conclude you are either trolling, or fantastically ignorant. Care to end my
suspense?
I'm guessing you had a bad day and felt the need to take it out on someone
else.
The other thing MS should be forced to do is charge more for the IE + WMP version. They are obviously subsidised. A convicted monopoly should not be allowed to subsidise an extension of their monopolistic control over such an important market.
Given the national embarrassment, never mind the hypocrisy demonstrated in
killing thousands & spending billions exporting your laughable democratic
process...
Can anybody seriously believe that the fact that these problems still
haven't been fixed after 4 years isn't deliberate???
When you look at the extensive
funding involved in electing a candidate, it's obvious that some people
really have a vested interest.
Whilst I agree that the parents who don't have the resources to educate a child don't deserve an educated child, the child itself might deserve an education. And society itself has to deal with the consequences.
At the end of the day, it's not about who deserves what, it's about motivating potentially bad parents to stay childless, whilst simultaneously educating existing parents how to raise their children to be good citizens.
Actually, Kazaa
Lite 2.6 is still as great as ever. Even after Sharman blocked 2.43,
a couple of hard-working guys rebuilt the project on 2.6 and it has:
- 33,000 TB of files. These are shared amongst thousands of separate supernodes
and only KL allows you to jump supernode.
- Bad IP blocking, so RIAA can't spy on you too easily.
A note of warning - it doesn't work on XP SP2 and is unlikely to. Personally,
I started using DC++ too - there's a higher degree of pride in sharing quality
stuff.
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You WILL be discriminated against regardless of a national ID or not, as long as people have a reason for discriminating against you.
You're right that few need an ID card to tell that you are Asian.However, if your government wanted to eliminate ALL Asians, they wouldn't get far without cataloguing them all.
Religions are equally likely to be discriminated against and aren't as obvious.
What you should be fighting isn't a national ID, but the abuse of databases that record personal information. Such as the ones used to single out Japanese citizens (US, World War II), communists (US, 50s, 60s) or muslims (US, 2001-current).
A very good point. But how DOES one restrict access to such a database to people who will never allow anyone to abuse it?
Genocide doesn't need an ID card at all. The jews were much easier identified by the markings they had to wear.
Suggest you find about IBM and the Holocaust.
No need for an ID card. People in Darfur get killed in a Genocide without an ID card.
So you don't need a database to kill indiscriminately. You do need one to persecute distinct groups. Can you believe that the government are already considering putting everyone's ethnicity in their database?
My point is that using this argument goes against what you like to achieve, because people stop taking you seriously then. You have an ID card anyway which is your passport (or driver's license). What if the government just declares that everybody has to carry their passport from now on? Same effect without the new ID card.
You obviously have little idea of what the government is proposing. I wish you were unique in that regard but most people are clueless.
Currently, government plans are that the card need not be carried.
Until recently, access to this database was restricted to government employees, their friends, their friends' neighbours etc. The only real concession Blunkett has made to the damning criticism is allowing you to find out (all of?) what they've stored about you.
The database will also publish a unique number for you, which banks & flight companies will obviously use, hence allowing any future government to discriminate against you based on your finances and travel.
Once you and your unique ID number are interchangeable, it will be used in every single database logging your activities (currently including internet access, phone records, store cards & congestion charging).
Of course, by the time any really dangerous government gets in, this database will also hold your medical records, DNA & movements tracked by CCTV.
You better hope that government likes what it finds.
DVD is good enough for most of us, just as CDs are. To watch High Definition TV, we'll need new TVs as well as players just to watch a handful of films. Few are going to invest $2k in this technology until we're broadcasting in HDTV.
Then these things might replace VHS / Tivo.
Until then, the market is tiny.
Was gonna mod you down but just figured I'd point out some of the other product names that have little reference to the product.
Heard of Java?
Orange?
Wi-Fi?
3G?
Unless you're creating a new market, the name only has to be memorable & sound technologically advanced.
Dr Yang Jwing Ming suggests that this productivity difference is due to the "natural" magnetic polarity of the human body and how the Earth's magnetic field helps or hinders that depending whether you are in the North or South Hemisphere.
FWIW...
Killing the desire to create spam is easy. You just need effective punishment.
I'd suggest chopping off their hands, but million dollar fines and years of jailtime would probably do it.
Then you need someone motivated & skilled enough to track them down, and a court which understands the technical issues.
None of this is particularly difficult to arrange, if the political desire/funding is there.
The Arwen story provides a lot of relief from the endless stuggle and angst about Sauron destroying Middle Earth. It also explains the Elves' (lack of) involvement and the Last Ship scene.
I'd also suggest it adds a subtle magical side to the film, which would otherwise be restricted to Galadriel's mirror, The Ring effects & Gandalf's charge at Helm's Deep.
Oh yeah, Arwen is also stunning...
I'd have cut the Aragorn nearly drowning scenes, although they say Viggo nearly did drown. They are utterly useless to the plot.
How do you think Nazi Germany rounded up and murdered 6 million Jews in a few years?
Remember Thomas J. Watson's assertion that only 6 computers would be require worldwide? Well, IBM supplied at least one to the Nazis.
Still don't think it could happen in America?
I'd have thought it was obvious that your democracy isn't working well enough to take these kinds of risks.
Any information stored on computer about you can be used to discriminate against you. The more organised and freely available that information is, the more easily you can be persecuted.
What about your religion?
How do you think Nazi Germany rounded up and murdered 6 million Jews in a few years?
Remember Thomas J. Watson's assertion that only 6 computers would be require worldwide? Well, they supplied at least one to the Nazis.
Still don't think it could happen in America?
I'd have thought it was obvious that your democracy isn't working well enough to take these kinds of risks.
Any information stored on computer about you can be used to discriminate against you. The more organised and freely available that information is, the more easily you can be persecuted.
I'd be surprised if Halo 1 didn't account for most XBox sales.
Think about that. Bungie weren't far off releasing Halo for PC when M$ bought them. We then had to wait 18 months for the XBox port, and another 24 months for the more-or-less identical PC version.
Computer games are accessible. You can get the "hit" within a minute.
Others have already pointed out that in addition to income from taxes, we'll save money on deterrence & jailing people.
We'll also be able to make supply safer and take away the $500+ billion a year that currently goes to organised crime syndicates.
Regardless, sugar is a carbohydrate and when your body is functioning normally your body will store unused carbohydrates as fat, barring those which are expelled from the body as waste.
Wrong. When your body is functioning normally, it will increase your metabolism, probably make you hyperactive and thereby burn off the excess calories.
You are forgetting how most people's weight changes very little regardless of how much they eat.
No gene causes alcoholism or depression. Nobody needs to drink but some people need help not to.
Most alcoholics feel pretty guilty about it and guess what they turn to when they feel bad?
More disorders also means more money for the drug companies. Unlike counsellors, these companies hold extraordinarily influence over the US government, FDA & American Psychiatric Association (who write the DSM). They also lack any ethics that most therapists DO have. GlaxoSmithKline was recently found to been lying about Paxil's effectiveness whilst suppressing research showing that it actually harmed children.
Whilst I agree that most therapists are ineffective, the problem is that they never get punished for it. The most successful therapist I know is also the least effective and is in fact dangerous.
IE is losing marketshare at an amazing rate.
IE's market share has dropped ...from 95.73% to 94.73%. In a free market
it wouldn't even register on the chart.
That's untrue. MS pre-selecting IE does not preclude others from competing. That's a blatantly untrue statement. It makes it more difficult. That's a big difference.
It's still immoral, probably illegal and causing incredible amounts of harm to innovation and productivity.
The courts did nothing to MS. So ask yourself. Is there more or less competition than there was in the 90's?
Irrelevant. The issue is whether Microsoft's competitors are allowed to compete fairly in this so-called free market.
How is that possible if MS was able to do what the government allege? If MS had an illegal monopoly on operating systems for x86 computers, how come there are more now than at anytime in history? How come users have dozens more choices than ever?
And if MS leveraged the operating system lock up browsers, how come we have more choice now than ever for browsers? How come on x86 alone there are at least 4 major choices for quality web-browsing?
Because while hardware has advanced in accordance with Moore's Law, the Microsoft-dominated software industry has stagnated. People have got so dissatisfied with your corrupt government and what the monopolised market provides that they actually had to invent a whole new form of production and freely donate huge amounts of time to it.
I've never seen that happen in any other field. The situation is just plain bizarre. No wonder OSS suffers credibility.
The government was wrong. MS had a large marketshare, but short of patenting everything in sight, it is impossible to have a monopoly on intellectual property like software.
No, you are wrong. Every single one of your arguments has been effectively rebutted and your post merely serves to highlight you as the Microsoft lackey that you are.
David Blunkett, the Home Secretary is creating a compulsory database of every UK citizen's photo, fingerprints & retina scan. It is inevitable that our web, phone, banking, credit card, store card & travelling records will be linked to it. He is also giving permission for the police to take our DNA samples without our ever knowing.
Blunkett has also discarded vast numbers of complaints and ignored warnings from both his own Select Committee and the Information Commisioner.
Not only will this database go ahead without a national referendum, it is also bypassing any vote or debate in our sole democratic process, the House of Commons.
I believe the ??AA themselves are the ones doing the prosecuting, and thus, paying for the litigation. I suppose public dollars may be going towards the defendants' legal bills, but public defenders are relatively cheap, and these are people who, after all, broke the law.
I think he's saying that your country has bigger things to worry about than chasing file swappers.
>I don't want that money wasted imprisoning swappers.
AFAIK, copyright infringement is a civil crime, not a felony. That means no prison time. They'll be fined. Do you have any evidence to suggest that file swappers are actually being jailed?
I guess you didn't read the article, or even the summary that your response was supposed to be relevant to. I quote: an escalation that could result in jail time for file swappers.
The law being changed is one that will allow file swappers to be jailed for counterfeiting.
>I don't care to bear the social costs of ruining the lives of swappers.
Ruining the lives? How is a $3000 civil settlement ruining their lives? Besides, there's an easy way to avoid having your life ruined by a fine: DON'T BREAK THE LAW!
He's not in control of who else swaps files. He does have a right to express his opinion, especially on how his tax dollars are spent.
Do you know anything? Everything you said was so far off-base, I can only conclude you are either trolling, or fantastically ignorant. Care to end my suspense?
I'm guessing you had a bad day and felt the need to take it out on someone else.
The other thing MS should be forced to do is charge more for the IE + WMP version. They are obviously subsidised. A convicted monopoly should not be allowed to subsidise an extension of their monopolistic control over such an important market.
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Given the national embarrassment, never mind the hypocrisy demonstrated in killing thousands & spending billions exporting your laughable democratic process...
Can anybody seriously believe that the fact that these problems still haven't been fixed after 4 years isn't deliberate???
When you look at the extensive funding involved in electing a candidate, it's obvious that some people really have a vested interest.
Are the OSCE being asked to ensure the fairness of (and will they have access to) the whole process? Us Brits are becoming quite used to fake authorities apparently sanctioning Blair's deceptions.
Of course, we didn't even start on why the Democrats put forward John Kerry - an unelectable candidate.
There's a nice computer game based on this year's presidential election. Buy it, play it and then make sure someone else plays it.
Overpopulation is arguably a bigger problem than supporting a single generation of baby-boomers.
Seems like the money saved in not educating children today could go a long way towards providing care for the elderly in 20 years time.
The immigration problem is unlikely to go away either. Kill 2 birds with one stone.
Whilst I agree that the parents who don't have the resources to educate a child don't deserve an educated child, the child itself might deserve an education. And society itself has to deal with the consequences.
At the end of the day, it's not about who deserves what, it's about motivating potentially bad parents to stay childless, whilst simultaneously educating existing parents how to raise their children to be good citizens.
Why should we pay for someone else to look after YOUR children?
Personally, I think we should be encouraging potential parents who can't afford it to NOT have children.
This means free contraception/sterilisation. Maybe even means-tested payments to childless couples.
Actually, Kazaa Lite 2.6 is still as great as ever. Even after Sharman blocked 2.43, a couple of hard-working guys rebuilt the project on 2.6 and it has:
- 33,000 TB of files. These are shared amongst thousands of separate supernodes and only KL allows you to jump supernode.
- Bad IP blocking, so RIAA can't spy on you too easily.
- Accelerator, AutoSearchMore, AVIPreview built-in.
A note of warning - it doesn't work on XP SP2 and is unlikely to. Personally, I started using DC++ too - there's a higher degree of pride in sharing quality stuff.
Cool, if someone incorporates a Speex decoder, I'll buy one.