this is more like Kill Bill where it was supposed to be one movie and they just released it as two to make more money and planned on soaking the fans by releasing multiple versions on DVD.
I only paid about $24 combined for KB 1&2, so I don't know how they were 'soaking' the fans by releasing them separately. That is about the same price as you would pay for a two disk, 4+ hour feature anyway.
Interesting to note, that he basses his views of the groups as a whole on the behavior of individuals.
Were he to say, "I am more worried about black people* than Mexicans because a black person slipped a note under my door." he would get eaten alive by the public outcry. Apparently, it's ok to generalize based on traits that are chosen rather than inherited...
It's no surprise that Republicans are so oppressed.
The republicans aren't oppressed, they are just disliked because they are hypocritical dickheads. They are about the most pampered pack of 'victims' I have ever seen.
I con only imagine how they would whine and carry on if they actually were oppressed...
Think of what governments would like to do with this little feature, during wartimes, etc...
Why wait for wartime? If you were N korea, Iran or another belligerent country this seems like an easy way of screwing with the population/IT infrastructure/economy.
Also, the military uses windows. Isn't it a HUGE security problem to have your boxes 'phoning home' and possibly degradng functionality if it doesn't work out?
I find it ironic that MS has been adamant about not building in backdoors into its OS for years, and then does just that with this feature.
That might not be a bad idea.../me calls for a Boston CD Party!
Sweet jeebus, man, don't do it! Dolphins are having hard enough of a time of it as is without you dumping cases of crappy Brittney Spears music on them...
As computational resources on the market continue to expand, I would suspect that we could soon come to see the opposite of scalability becoming more important - getting more done with less space and energy.
If you think the solution to scaling issues is to 'throw more silicone' at the problem, you are about the worse programmer in the universe. This talent is incredibly handy, as any site shut down by Slashdot's ravening hordes would attest. What you are suggesting is akin to 'Bubble sorts are a great algorithm if you do them an a fast CPU'. Any tech company that hopes to achieve more than a small audience will need people with this skill set.
With databases hitting petabyte sizes, and a world wide Internet audience in the hundreds of millions and growing, I very much doubt that scaling issues will be resolved by simple hardware solutions anytime in the foreseeable future.
You seem to be referencing the episode of Futurerama(sp?) where Bender is visiting the moon. Bender is suggesting they start their own moon theme park, 'with blackjack and hookers', only to pause and add that the blackjack isn't really essential.
The guy who invented pulse wipers has sued every car company for royalties now;
Wait, he INVENTED pulse wipers? He made the ("non-obvious to a expert in that field" according to TPO guidelines) leap of increasing the time interval between wiper passes, and then tried to sell that to car companies? Talk about a patent troll. I don't blame car companies for 'stealing' his idea.
Was his idea worth some money? Sure, probably about $5. Someone would have thought of it, and it really isn't hard to wire a capacitor into a wiper motor to slow it down. Was it worthy of a patent? Hell no.
Actually, I wouldn't expect that from them at all. The military has no real interest in spying on the civilian population. Perhaps the FBI, CIA, or NSA might do the stuff you were spouting off about, but the military is going to be focused on conducting electronic and cyber warfare, i.e. destroying the enemy's electronic infrastructure and protecting our military's infrastructure.
if you want to be hysterically paranoid, at least do it about the right things...
I'm sure that this will get me on the UK fuzz shit list, but since the the government is dead set on spying on people for no really good reason, has anyone done any research on what it would take to bring one of these drones down?
Mod parent up, just because your assets are hosted in a neutral country, does not make you free from us law if you are a us company.
More over, suppose you move your servers and company somewhere else. Now, you are on the state department's hate list for doing business with US enemies, and have to deal with that. Worst case, your company could get blacklisted from the US and other western countries. Also, who is to say that wherever you go won't have similar restrictions? People don't like each other the world over.
Wouldn't the best plan be to host where you will reach the widest audience, and just be smug in knowing that the Internet has a tendency to rout around censorship? Let's be honest, just blocking a few IP ranges is just playing lip service to US law...
That same very wealthy candidate could just run themselves instead and you wouldn't utter a peep of protest
I wouldn't? Why would I be any more sanguine about buying your own way into office? If anything that is even worse than someone else doing it. At least with someone else doing it there are two people 'in the loop' as it were, as opposed a single person doing what ever the hell they wanted to.
The whole point of a democracy is having a plurality of points of view providing input on how the government is run. By limiting donations, it forces candidates to seek positions on issues that will provide them with a broad support base. The alternative is basically a plutocracy, where those few with a lot of money to spend gain undue influence over the laws that govern all. How is that a good thing?
I'm sure that the intent of the framers was that political speech was free speech. There isn't much debate on that point.
The problem simply lies with the fact that Corporations are not people, and should not have the rights of people.
The supreme court only 'answers' questions exactly as asked. The question asked was not, 'Should Corporations have human rights?', but more akin to, 'Since Corporations seem to have human rights, shouldn't freedom of political speech be one of them?'
The flaw in your argument lies with the fact that a single very wealth person could 'buy' more speech for a candidate that they favored, than a candidate that had broad grass roots support and more modest funding. This causes the candidate to give you much more influence over their agenda than a candidate that has broad grassroots support. Sure, your idea requires candidates to spend less time fund raising. They would all be solidly in the pockets of the rich, though.
Why would nuclear weapon reduction have any bearing on doomsday scenarios? Sure, a full nuclear exchange would have drastic global impact, but if something is going to end life on earth, it will be either a) A massive impact from a meteor, or b) a massive gamma ray burst from some nearby star unexpectedly going full nova. And, I somehow doubt that either of these events are being actively prepared for.
So why again were they moving the hands on their non-quantifiable imaginary model clock again?
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this is more like Kill Bill where it was supposed to be one movie and they just released it as two to make more money and planned on soaking the fans by releasing multiple versions on DVD.
I only paid about $24 combined for KB 1&2, so I don't know how they were 'soaking' the fans by releasing them separately. That is about the same price as you would pay for a two disk, 4+ hour feature anyway.
Someone should start a gamer party and run for election on the grounds that you actually know something about what you're trying to regulate.
Awesome idea! Who do we know that has an 18 charisma to head up the party?
Interesting to note, that he basses his views of the groups as a whole on the behavior of individuals.
Were he to say, "I am more worried about black people* than Mexicans because a black person slipped a note under my door." he would get eaten alive by the public outcry. Apparently, it's ok to generalize based on traits that are chosen rather than inherited...
It's no surprise that Republicans are so oppressed.
The republicans aren't oppressed, they are just disliked because they are hypocritical dickheads. They are about the most pampered pack of 'victims' I have ever seen.
I con only imagine how they would whine and carry on if they actually were oppressed...
Think of what governments would like to do with this little feature, during wartimes, etc...
Why wait for wartime? If you were N korea, Iran or another belligerent country this seems like an easy way of screwing with the population/IT infrastructure/economy.
Also, the military uses windows. Isn't it a HUGE security problem to have your boxes 'phoning home' and possibly degradng functionality if it doesn't work out?
I find it ironic that MS has been adamant about not building in backdoors into its OS for years, and then does just that with this feature.
I wonder how many false positives this will generate?
I love the smell of class action lawsuits in the morning...it smells like.... money!
*waves hand*
These are not the prequels you are looking for.
Move along.
That might not be a bad idea... /me calls for a Boston CD Party!
Sweet jeebus, man, don't do it! Dolphins are having hard enough of a time of it as is without you dumping cases of crappy Brittney Spears music on them...
ahh the old think of the kids line. It always works and people never have the guts to say that some things don't simply protect kids.
Isn't that the problem with child pornography, that people are 'thinking of the kids'....?
As computational resources on the market continue to expand, I would suspect that we could soon come to see the opposite of scalability becoming more important - getting more done with less space and energy.
If you think the solution to scaling issues is to 'throw more silicone' at the problem, you are about the worse programmer in the universe. This talent is incredibly handy, as any site shut down by Slashdot's ravening hordes would attest. What you are suggesting is akin to 'Bubble sorts are a great algorithm if you do them an a fast CPU'. Any tech company that hopes to achieve more than a small audience will need people with this skill set.
With databases hitting petabyte sizes, and a world wide Internet audience in the hundreds of millions and growing, I very much doubt that scaling issues will be resolved by simple hardware solutions anytime in the foreseeable future.
You seem to be referencing the episode of Futurerama(sp?) where Bender is visiting the moon. Bender is suggesting they start their own moon theme park, 'with blackjack and hookers', only to pause and add that the blackjack isn't really essential.
Ironic, no?
The guy who invented pulse wipers has sued every car company for royalties now;
Wait, he INVENTED pulse wipers? He made the ("non-obvious to a expert in that field" according to TPO guidelines) leap of increasing the time interval between wiper passes, and then tried to sell that to car companies? Talk about a patent troll. I don't blame car companies for 'stealing' his idea.
Was his idea worth some money? Sure, probably about $5. Someone would have thought of it, and it really isn't hard to wire a capacitor into a wiper motor to slow it down. Was it worthy of a patent? Hell no.
Why exactly should we support or admire this moron?
She might be a moron, but she's OUR moron. Besides, its either cheer for her or the RIAA...
Actually, I wouldn't expect that from them at all. The military has no real interest in spying on the civilian population. Perhaps the FBI, CIA, or NSA might do the stuff you were spouting off about, but the military is going to be focused on conducting electronic and cyber warfare, i.e. destroying the enemy's electronic infrastructure and protecting our military's infrastructure.
if you want to be hysterically paranoid, at least do it about the right things...
NASA isn't completely shutting down it's manned space program with the cancellations, they are just 'off-shoring' it to India...
So, on a completely unrelated topic...
Has anyone started thinking about how one could shoot one of these things down sans a SAM, in a way than won't hurt anyone?
I'm sure that this will get me on the UK fuzz shit list, but since the the government is dead set on spying on people for no really good reason, has anyone done any research on what it would take to bring one of these drones down?
Mod parent up, just because your assets are hosted in a neutral country, does not make you free from us law if you are a us company.
More over, suppose you move your servers and company somewhere else. Now, you are on the state department's hate list for doing business with US enemies, and have to deal with that. Worst case, your company could get blacklisted from the US and other western countries. Also, who is to say that wherever you go won't have similar restrictions? People don't like each other the world over.
Wouldn't the best plan be to host where you will reach the widest audience, and just be smug in knowing that the Internet has a tendency to rout around censorship? Let's be honest, just blocking a few IP ranges is just playing lip service to US law...
What kind of punishment would I get for shoplifting a $16 CD? Isn't petty theft like a $500 fine and community service?
Perhaps that's the lesson to be learned here. Don't pirate music, just go down to the local music store and steal it.
natural systems(ants are the other one that gets mentioned a lot) have developed some quite efficient approaches to various problems.
Do they have a good solution for lawyers? I ask because we were talking about slime molds...
That same very wealthy candidate could just run themselves instead and you wouldn't utter a peep of protest
I wouldn't? Why would I be any more sanguine about buying your own way into office? If anything that is even worse than someone else doing it. At least with someone else doing it there are two people 'in the loop' as it were, as opposed a single person doing what ever the hell they wanted to.
The whole point of a democracy is having a plurality of points of view providing input on how the government is run. By limiting donations, it forces candidates to seek positions on issues that will provide them with a broad support base. The alternative is basically a plutocracy, where those few with a lot of money to spend gain undue influence over the laws that govern all. How is that a good thing?
I'm sure that the intent of the framers was that political speech was free speech. There isn't much debate on that point.
The problem simply lies with the fact that Corporations are not people, and should not have the rights of people.
The supreme court only 'answers' questions exactly as asked. The question asked was not, 'Should Corporations have human rights?', but more akin to, 'Since Corporations seem to have human rights, shouldn't freedom of political speech be one of them?'
We need MORE money in politics, not less.
The flaw in your argument lies with the fact that a single very wealth person could 'buy' more speech for a candidate that they favored, than a candidate that had broad grass roots support and more modest funding. This causes the candidate to give you much more influence over their agenda than a candidate that has broad grassroots support. Sure, your idea requires candidates to spend less time fund raising. They would all be solidly in the pockets of the rich, though.
Why would nuclear weapon reduction have any bearing on doomsday scenarios? Sure, a full nuclear exchange would have drastic global impact, but if something is going to end life on earth, it will be either a) A massive impact from a meteor, or b) a massive gamma ray burst from some nearby star unexpectedly going full nova. And, I somehow doubt that either of these events are being actively prepared for.
So why again were they moving the hands on their non-quantifiable imaginary model clock again?
I used to think I was a hypochondriac...