I was modded troll for denouncing the act of shooting 13 year old children on the way home from school as terrorism.
April 4th, 1984. Last night to the flicks. All war
films. One very good one of a ship full of refugees being
bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. Audience much amused by shots of a great huge fat man trying to swim away with a helicopter after him, first you saw him wallowing along in the water like a porpoise, then you saw him through the helicopters gunsights, then he was full of holes and the sea round him turned pink and he sank as suddenly as though the holes had let in the water, audience shouting with laughter when he sank. then you saw a lifeboat full of children with a helicopter hovering over it. there was a middle-aged woman might have been a jewess sitting up in the bow with a little boy about three years old in her arms. little boy screaming with fright and hiding his head between her breasts as if he was trying to burrow right into her and the woman putting her arms round him and comforting him although she was blue with fright herself, all the time covering him up as much as possible as if she thought her arms could keep the bullets off him. then the helicopter planted a 20 kilo bomb in among them terrific flash and the boat went all to matchwood. then there was a wonderful shot of a child's arm going up up up right up into the air a helicopter with a camera in its nose must have followed it up and there was a lot of applause from the party seats but a woman down in the prole part of the house suddenly started kicking up a fuss and shouting they didnt oughter of showed it not in front of kids they didnt it aint right not in front of kids it aint until the police turned her turned her out i dont suppose anything happened to her nobody cares what the proles say typical prole reaction they never -- George Orwell "1984"
Even after that before you start bashing, ask who should be in charge of developing medicine - the government or industry?
Before you start bashing, ask who should be in charge of developing medicine - academics or corporations? I for one love the idea of letting Africans and Indians die of AIDS because they can't afford to buy our patented medicines at inflated prices. <sarcasm/>
If I were an Israeli borderguard and a woman strapped with explosives runs towards me, I would... kill them.
Yeah, that's what they always say at the public inquiry. The truth is they would shoot anything that moves, even a three year old, because they are racist bastards blinded by hate. Americans take note: your tax dollars payed to have a 13 year old girl murdered in cold blood. The killer's maximum penalty is 3 years in prison. This is abominable and makes me ashamed to call myself an American. It will only end if we stop funding the Israeli terrorists.
I have a better idea. Why don't we break up illegal monopolies like we used to do. You know, like when they broke up Standard Oil... AT&T. Why do we settle for a penance from Microsoft?
Both communism ("proletarians of the world unite") and capitalism ("capital should be allowed to move freely across borders") are internationalist ideologies. We know which party won that world too.
You're not kidding. America fought WWII in part because of racism? The same America that used the word nigger in newspapers regularly until around the 60's? The same America that exiled Japanese Americans to internment camps? What? There was no civil right's movement or Jim Crow laws? Ya don't say.
We didn't have satellites feeding us realtime pictures of German concentration camps and mass graves back then. Most Americans didn't hear about the Holocaust until the war was mostly over. America fought WWII because the Japanese bombed the shit out of Pearl Harbor.
Fought WWII over racism my eye. What shiny new history book fed you that tripe?
>That's not a good idea if you want to maintain the standard of living of your population.
So now those poor people in foreign countries can actually have some qualified jobs in manufacturing, rather than just mining and farming like they were previously forced to? And why is that a bad thing?
I think you've missed his point. To maintain the standard of living we have in America, we cannot continue to carry a half trillion dollar trade deficit. We are exporting America's wealth and not a lot else. I'm sure the third world nations love this, everyone wants to live the good life. However, when it comes time to cough up $10,000 a year for AIDS drugs or $250 a copy for Windows, they suddenly don't care for this whole 'exporting intellectual property' idea anymore. They've stopped paying. We'll have to stop buying.
When that happens, who exactly will they be manufacturing for? Why, themselves of course. They will have the jobs, the training, and the expertise.
Of course, your answer is 'be a nomad'. Your solution falls apart when everyone wants to 'be a nomad'. You know, supply and demand, simple economics. Does America just let any Indian come to work here? Consider the situation reversed and you'll see your answer is "Let them eat cake."
The debate isn't about exporting jobs. It's about exporting wealth. Jobs are just a part of that.
22 digits... It's all a matter of how you look at the numbers. For instance,
1492313371983
Is much easier to memorize as
1492, 31337, 1983 right?
22 digits is really just 3 phone numbers plus a digit. So with all the brain power out there reading Slashdot, you geeks mean to tell me if three knock dead gorgeous babes gave you their... oh.. Slashdot.... nevermind;-)
"No "Tracker" necessary, works with virtually any URL This is a big one, Dijjer will work with almost any direct URL, the content publisher doesn't need to lift a finger - they may not even realise that people are using Dijjer to save their bandwidth costs!
So, am I to understand that when using dijjer you are broadcasting your web surfing habits all the time in the hopes that someone other than marketers and police are out there listening? Or is there some anonymizing Freenet magic going on here? Giving up my privacy to save someone else a dime doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
Americans access more internet porn then many other nations in middle east, africa etc, but I don't think those countries have any less sexual crimes than USA.
Not according to this. However, you have to look at how we define and punish rape as well. I mean, if I had the choice between honor killing and keeping my mouth shut, I know which one I'd pick. Also, given that American prisons are gay sex torture factories, I have to wonder how many of those incidents took place behind bars.
The sensationalism. The trivial stories dominating the front pages. Suspense and drama instead of fact based reporting. The Ricky Lake of news if you will. Wait... we're still doing that? Oh... well uh, nevermind.;-)
Do you think sending people to prison for three years who "bring a video camera into a movie theater to make a copy of the film for distribution" is a good use of your tax money?
You don't get it. It doesn't matter what you think. The top 30% of American incomes pay for 65% of the taxes. Along with that comes a sense of entitlement that allows for stupidity like this to flourish. "We pay all the taxes, so we have the right to rule you freeloaders like a king."
The dino's ferociously bared teeth hint at elements of Intellectual Ventures' bold business plan.
Read: "Intellectual Property" is all about protecting the dinosaurs.
Copyrights and Patents only work if it is reasonable to the extent that the general public respects it. You cannot share an idea with me, collect your money, and then wipe it from my mind. I now have your idea. The only way to stop me from sharing it with others is to appeal to my sense of fairness. Asking me to keep it between us for a limited time in order for you to make a living and recover costs generally works; People understand those needs.
However, this gentleman's agreement is quickly undermined by abuse. Asking that I keep an idea under my hat so that your children's children will never have to work for a living does not work. This is the current failure of Copyright. Asking that I respect your ownership of an "idea" that is blatantly obvious like "One-click Shopping" also does not work. This is the patent system's failure. The general population regards this as abuse. If enforced, it will be regarded as tyranny.
As a result, I see this venture ultimately failing. It won't fail because the idea behind it is faulty. It will fail because the system on which it is built is faulty. I see America's growing dependence on the idea of "Intellectual Property" leading to its own failure. Poorer nations will reject the very notion of "Intellectual Property" for what it really is: Intellectual Monopoly. This abusive monopoly system will be abandon by poorer nations who cannot afford AIDS drugs and a Windows OS. It will in turn drive innovation out of America and into countries that don't punish innovators for not being counted among an elite few. The elite few will kick and scream and throw a tantrum, but in the end, what's good for the majority will prevail.
America's system depends on a handful of privileged elitists to out-compete billions of people who are all brilliant in their own right. Even if you collected millions of the most brilliant minds on Earth and gave them unlimited funding, they could not compete with billions of the more modestly brilliant minds on more modest budgets working together and building on each other's ideas to achieve success. And then there is reality: America does not have all of the most brilliant minds on Earth or unlimited funding. In the end, America will look around and see all production and manufacturing outsourced, which leads directly to all American capital flowing one way out of the nation, which leads directly to faltering strength in the dollar, which finally leads to accelerating inflation and the collapse of the American economy. What will those elitist in America do when they are forced out of their think tanks? Get a real job or starve I would imagine.
And in possibly unrelated news: I'm searching for a nice place to live that accepts American emigrants, Rome fell to corruption, history repeats itself, and bees survived the mass extinction while dinosaurs did not.
It's powerful because you can create intelligent scripts to automate tasks. Then you launch those scripts by clicking them.
Imagine those utilities wrapped in Automator plugins. CLI for everyone, not just elitist dicks. Of course, that assumes you don't already consider us Mac users to be elitist dicks;-)
Sorry if that sounded vague. Section 213 of the original USA PATRIOT Act does not sunset (Black Bag searches). Several other sections of USA PATRIOT do not sunset. No provision of Patriot II sunsets either.
Section 213, among others, doesn't sunset. The word "sunset" doesn't even appear in the VICTORY Act (Patriot II) that Bush signed on the Saturday Saddam was captured. Now that he has been re-elected, what do you think the odds of changing that are gonna be? C'ya liberty. Nice knowin' ya.
When you look on the whole American history it turns out that only the post-WWII period really resembles contemporary understanding of constitutional democracy (and even then there were authoritarian hiccups of McCarthyism or Watergate).
How could you tell how much of it was lies? It
might be true that the average human being was better
off now than he had been before the Revolution. The only
evidence to the contrary was the mute protest in your own
bones, the instinctive feeling that the conditions you lived in
were intolerable and that at some other time they must have
been different. -- George Orwell "1984"
Really. So constitution democracy includes locking people away without charges, trials, or lawyers? Constitutional democracy allows for the FBI to write themselves a warrant, plant bugs and video cameras in your home, and install a key logger in your keyboard for 6 months without telling you. Constitutional democracy intended for the 'Miami Model' of silencing peaceful demonstrations and public protest?
I'll see your free speech suppression and raids on ______ists via the Sedition Act of 1918 and raise you secret searches and the elimination of habeas corpus via the "War on Terror".
Ok, So the big Mac is still #7. That's great, but there are 6 wonderfull computers that have all sorts of great technology that your completely ignoring because Apple wets your pants.
'Problem' customer: "Oh yeah! Well I'm gonna make your life miserable Best Buy! You say you don't want us 'problem' customers, huh? Fine! I'm gonna suck up your abuse and shop here EXCLUSIVELY!!"
Best Buy Guy (Sounding like Mr. Burns): "Excellent"
I get lots of news from blogs. News I would otherwise never hear from the big 5 media companies. Slashdot keeps me appraised of changes in copyright legislation more effectively than any news outlet available. Macworld's online MacCentral blog is way better than a monthly print. I'd say that most of my news comes from the web these days. I don't subscribe to a newspaper. I rarely watch TV. When I do turn it on, they are usually discussing something I read online days or weeks earlier as if it were 'late breaking, up to the minute news!!' It seems to me that bloggers are doing a better job, and doing it for free. That has the mainstream worried. Yeah, blogs can be inaccurate as yesterday's Google picture archive story here illustrates, but retraction was fast and front page; Unlike what you will find in a newspaper.
Slashdot Mirror
April 4th, 1984. Last night to the flicks. All war films. One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. Audience much amused by shots of a great huge fat man trying to swim away with a helicopter after him, first you saw him wallowing along in the water like a porpoise, then you saw him through the helicopters gunsights, then he was full of holes and the sea round him turned pink and he sank as suddenly as though the holes had let in the water, audience shouting with laughter when he sank. then you saw a lifeboat full of children with a helicopter hovering over it. there was a middle-aged woman might have been a jewess sitting up in the bow with a little boy about three years old in her arms. little boy screaming with fright and hiding his head between her breasts as if he was trying to burrow right into her and the woman putting her arms round him and comforting him although she was blue with fright herself, all the time covering him up as much as possible as if she thought her arms could keep the bullets off him. then the helicopter planted a 20 kilo bomb in among them terrific flash and the boat went all to matchwood. then there was a wonderful shot of a child's arm going up up up right up into the air a helicopter with a camera in its nose must have followed it up and there was a lot of applause from the party seats but a woman down in the prole part of the house suddenly started kicking up a fuss and shouting they didnt oughter of showed it not in front of kids they didnt it aint right not in front of kids it aint until the police turned her turned her out i dont suppose anything happened to her nobody cares what the proles say typical prole reaction they never -- George Orwell "1984"
Before you start bashing, ask who should be in charge of developing medicine - academics or corporations? I for one love the idea of letting Africans and Indians die of AIDS because they can't afford to buy our patented medicines at inflated prices. <sarcasm />
Yeah, that's what they always say at the public inquiry. The truth is they would shoot anything that moves, even a three year old, because they are racist bastards blinded by hate. Americans take note: your tax dollars payed to have a 13 year old girl murdered in cold blood. The killer's maximum penalty is 3 years in prison. This is abominable and makes me ashamed to call myself an American. It will only end if we stop funding the Israeli terrorists.
Radioactive Thanks for playing!
I have a better idea. Why don't we break up illegal monopolies like we used to do. You know, like when they broke up Standard Oil... AT&T. Why do we settle for a penance from Microsoft?
You never once mentioned America, and now you will destroy my assertion based on that. You are what you eat and I loaded up on turkey today... :-)
Yep, the Russians went bankrupt and America won.
Time to rewrite those history books.
You're not kidding. America fought WWII in part because of racism? The same America that used the word nigger in newspapers regularly until around the 60's? The same America that exiled Japanese Americans to internment camps? What? There was no civil right's movement or Jim Crow laws? Ya don't say.
We didn't have satellites feeding us realtime pictures of German concentration camps and mass graves back then. Most Americans didn't hear about the Holocaust until the war was mostly over. America fought WWII because the Japanese bombed the shit out of Pearl Harbor.
Fought WWII over racism my eye. What shiny new history book fed you that tripe?
So now those poor people in foreign countries can actually have some qualified jobs in manufacturing, rather than just mining and farming like they were previously forced to? And why is that a bad thing?
I think you've missed his point. To maintain the standard of living we have in America, we cannot continue to carry a half trillion dollar trade deficit. We are exporting America's wealth and not a lot else. I'm sure the third world nations love this, everyone wants to live the good life. However, when it comes time to cough up $10,000 a year for AIDS drugs or $250 a copy for Windows, they suddenly don't care for this whole 'exporting intellectual property' idea anymore. They've stopped paying. We'll have to stop buying.
When that happens, who exactly will they be manufacturing for? Why, themselves of course. They will have the jobs, the training, and the expertise.
Of course, your answer is 'be a nomad'. Your solution falls apart when everyone wants to 'be a nomad'. You know, supply and demand, simple economics. Does America just let any Indian come to work here? Consider the situation reversed and you'll see your answer is "Let them eat cake."
The debate isn't about exporting jobs. It's about exporting wealth. Jobs are just a part of that.
1492313371983
Is much easier to memorize as
1492, 31337, 1983 right?
22 digits is really just 3 phone numbers plus a digit. So with all the brain power out there reading Slashdot, you geeks mean to tell me if three knock dead gorgeous babes gave you their... oh.. Slashdot.... nevermind ;-)
I think the term "copyright" was already bastardized by corporations who lobby to keep works that rightfully belong to the public in private hands.
This is a big one, Dijjer will work with almost any direct URL, the content publisher doesn't need to lift a finger - they may not even realise that people are using Dijjer to save their bandwidth costs!
So, am I to understand that when using dijjer you are broadcasting your web surfing habits all the time in the hopes that someone other than marketers and police are out there listening? Or is there some anonymizing Freenet magic going on here? Giving up my privacy to save someone else a dime doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
Not according to this. However, you have to look at how we define and punish rape as well. I mean, if I had the choice between honor killing and keeping my mouth shut, I know which one I'd pick. Also, given that American prisons are gay sex torture factories, I have to wonder how many of those incidents took place behind bars.
The sensationalism. The trivial stories dominating the front pages. Suspense and drama instead of fact based reporting. The Ricky Lake of news if you will. Wait... we're still doing that? Oh... well uh, nevermind. ;-)
You don't get it. It doesn't matter what you think. The top 30% of American incomes pay for 65% of the taxes. Along with that comes a sense of entitlement that allows for stupidity like this to flourish. "We pay all the taxes, so we have the right to rule you freeloaders like a king."
Read: "Intellectual Property" is all about protecting the dinosaurs.
Copyrights and Patents only work if it is reasonable to the extent that the general public respects it. You cannot share an idea with me, collect your money, and then wipe it from my mind. I now have your idea. The only way to stop me from sharing it with others is to appeal to my sense of fairness. Asking me to keep it between us for a limited time in order for you to make a living and recover costs generally works; People understand those needs.
However, this gentleman's agreement is quickly undermined by abuse. Asking that I keep an idea under my hat so that your children's children will never have to work for a living does not work. This is the current failure of Copyright. Asking that I respect your ownership of an "idea" that is blatantly obvious like "One-click Shopping" also does not work. This is the patent system's failure. The general population regards this as abuse. If enforced, it will be regarded as tyranny.
As a result, I see this venture ultimately failing. It won't fail because the idea behind it is faulty. It will fail because the system on which it is built is faulty. I see America's growing dependence on the idea of "Intellectual Property" leading to its own failure. Poorer nations will reject the very notion of "Intellectual Property" for what it really is: Intellectual Monopoly. This abusive monopoly system will be abandon by poorer nations who cannot afford AIDS drugs and a Windows OS. It will in turn drive innovation out of America and into countries that don't punish innovators for not being counted among an elite few. The elite few will kick and scream and throw a tantrum, but in the end, what's good for the majority will prevail.
America's system depends on a handful of privileged elitists to out-compete billions of people who are all brilliant in their own right. Even if you collected millions of the most brilliant minds on Earth and gave them unlimited funding, they could not compete with billions of the more modestly brilliant minds on more modest budgets working together and building on each other's ideas to achieve success. And then there is reality: America does not have all of the most brilliant minds on Earth or unlimited funding. In the end, America will look around and see all production and manufacturing outsourced, which leads directly to all American capital flowing one way out of the nation, which leads directly to faltering strength in the dollar, which finally leads to accelerating inflation and the collapse of the American economy. What will those elitist in America do when they are forced out of their think tanks? Get a real job or starve I would imagine.
And in possibly unrelated news: I'm searching for a nice place to live that accepts American emigrants, Rome fell to corruption, history repeats itself, and bees survived the mass extinction while dinosaurs did not.
Imagine those utilities wrapped in Automator plugins. CLI for everyone, not just elitist dicks. Of course, that assumes you don't already consider us Mac users to be elitist dicks ;-)
Sorry if that sounded vague. Section 213 of the original USA PATRIOT Act does not sunset (Black Bag searches). Several other sections of USA PATRIOT do not sunset. No provision of Patriot II sunsets either.
Section 213, among others, doesn't sunset. The word "sunset" doesn't even appear in the VICTORY Act (Patriot II) that Bush signed on the Saturday Saddam was captured. Now that he has been re-elected, what do you think the odds of changing that are gonna be? C'ya liberty. Nice knowin' ya.
What I don't understand is why are you guys not protesting?
Have you given up?
Google for 'Miami Model'. Then mod Fleener and F8Free up.
- How could you tell how much of it was lies? It
might be true that the average human being was better
off now than he had been before the Revolution. The only
evidence to the contrary was the mute protest in your own
bones, the instinctive feeling that the conditions you lived in
were intolerable and that at some other time they must have
been different. -- George Orwell "1984"
Really. So constitution democracy includes locking people away without charges, trials, or lawyers? Constitutional democracy allows for the FBI to write themselves a warrant, plant bugs and video cameras in your home, and install a key logger in your keyboard for 6 months without telling you. Constitutional democracy intended for the 'Miami Model' of silencing peaceful demonstrations and public protest?I'll see your free speech suppression and raids on ______ists via the Sedition Act of 1918 and raise you secret searches and the elimination of habeas corpus via the "War on Terror".
Fine, I'm willing to talk about number 6. ;-)
200 pizzas a week. ;-)
'Problem' customer: "Oh yeah! Well I'm gonna make your life miserable Best Buy! You say you don't want us 'problem' customers, huh? Fine! I'm gonna suck up your abuse and shop here EXCLUSIVELY!!"
Best Buy Guy (Sounding like Mr. Burns): "Excellent"
I get lots of news from blogs. News I would otherwise never hear from the big 5 media companies. Slashdot keeps me appraised of changes in copyright legislation more effectively than any news outlet available. Macworld's online MacCentral blog is way better than a monthly print. I'd say that most of my news comes from the web these days. I don't subscribe to a newspaper. I rarely watch TV. When I do turn it on, they are usually discussing something I read online days or weeks earlier as if it were 'late breaking, up to the minute news!!' It seems to me that bloggers are doing a better job, and doing it for free. That has the mainstream worried. Yeah, blogs can be inaccurate as yesterday's Google picture archive story here illustrates, but retraction was fast and front page; Unlike what you will find in a newspaper.