Don’t need to kill that which you can throw in the meat grinder. Let’s see how much that zombie can do when it’s in the form of burger patties. Unless it got T-1000-like powers, not very much, I guess...;)
You may recall that McBride was the brains behind the Linux lawsuits that SCO launched
What brains??
where he escapes with some IP intact
Repeat after me: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. AS. INTELLECTUAL. PROPERTY! BITSPACE. IS. NOT. MEATSPACE! It’s a physically impossible concept. It’s just as absurd as asking what was before time itself. So don’t you ever dare to use that FUD word again!
Apart from it looking horrible, aliasing stairways are the antithesis to stability of an object. E.g. a bone with aliasing would be much less stable. And don’t even think about lying on it and not causing painful pressure points.
No, you got that wrong. Not the users should be taxed. But the ones who made the operating system. Based on the amount of users of the OS, times the amount of found infections of it.
It’s analog to the environmental tax for companies who leave scorched earth... (Does the US have such a tax? I bet not.:/)
We really (start to) live in an industrial feudalism like I always foretold.
With companies owning the “town”, and making the rules.
I guess it’s a natural result of two things: 1. Natural selection, life, and the law of the jungle resulting from it. 2. Groupings of humans becoming way too large (>50-100 people), and thereby making accountability and morale of the individuals to their communities go away and everyone becoming an anonymous face.
I guess if I would found a country, I’d make it illegal for a group to consist of more than 50 entities. (A entity could also be a group, to allow larger groupings. But the rules would make it so that these groups could not act as one to void the limitation.)
But what does the amount of Navi’i, Smurfs and strangulation victims... and the amount of people with high blood pressure, sunburn and helldemon genes have to do with this?
There is a reason for that behavior. Primitive people think that when they made a decision, they would have to stand by it, no matter what. Even when everybody, including themselves, found out that it’s totally fuckin’ retarded. And the media fosters this, by calling people who change their position “flip-floppers”, no matter if they do it because they are a banneret in the wind, or because they gathered new information suggesting something else.
Fact is, that it’s no shame to state that one was wrong, but leaned from it. You can detect the honesty and general interest in the best choice of a politician that way. But don’t expect him to become very powerful, as the media and the ragtag is way too retarded to get this right and not destroy a honest politician’s career. (My theory is, that that is why we don’t ever see such a person.)
I’ve got my own sense of right and wrong, and don’t need anyone telling me what I should or should not do.
Left-foot breaking, motor breaking and manual transmission are all useful professional techniques. Maybe you haven’t got the skill to use them. But I prefer to teach myself the skills, rather than just limiting my abilities.
For the same reason I also don’t just do trial-and-error cooking, but read up on the physics happening in gastronomy. And I don’t just try to get girls. I make it a science. Because I just assume that I can become the best in the world, if I just want it enough. Hasn’t failed me yet. Wouldn’t fail you too.:)
From one beer? Nah. One good cocktail makes me glow a little. Two and i’m happy. Three and I am at the best level and had enough. Then after 1.5 hours, I’m back to somewhere between glowing and happy. The rest follows an exponential curve downwards.
So, it all depends on what you still call “drunk”.
I personally prefer to NOT sober up quickly. Because: Why would you cut short on the very point you’re drinking alcohol in the first place?:)
But I got my tried and true method anyway: A filet steak on the evening BEFORE, enough hydration while, and a slice of bread with raw ham plus some pickled gherkins on the morning after. I hadn’t had a hangover ever since. And I never ever had to thrown up from alcohol in my life.
It’s a simple solution, that some of my friends also do: The evening before going out, we eat a piece of good quality red meat. A filet steak preferably. That’s it. No hangover. No headache. Nothing. We’re doing this for years.
Of if I understand this right (and I’m very sure I do), their plan is to completely and totally remove all creativity, and just focus on milking cash cows... Which of course makes no sense, since after a few iterations, they will be empty and their business, now unable to come up with new ideas, will die.
Yeah, short-term cash with complete ignorance of long-term sustainability is all the craze nowadays. It’s managers that just care to look good until they move on to the next company, leaving the last to collapse like a house of cards. And so on.
If you are someone who still owns a company, and still has the power to steer it, be aware of those types. Be very aware. They will burn your business to the ground. Even if it took you your whole life to build it up.
Wrong. (Commercial) resale is never illegal. It’s perhaps against the terms of the sale. But that can be disputed. In fact it was disputed, and shown in court no not be valid, multiple times. What fraud? Who exactly got frauded? Nobody. I did only read the summary, and it doesn’t look like they used bots. And if I go to the supermarket, and buy all the bread with my own real money, it does not matter if it pissed off others who did fail to buy it before me.
Only impersonating *other* persons would be illegal. But “impersonating a person”?...that term does not make any sense. You always are a person. A script between you and something else does not change it more, that the tool (e.g. wrench) between you and a machine. It’s just a tool.
And about impersonating a non-existing person... well, it’s not exactly proper, but it also doesn’t hurt anyone. So what?
"How messed up is the US when we have to take cues on privacy laws from, of all people, the Germans?"
Yeah, because we are exactly like our great-grandparents. And we did not completely flip to the other side of left extremism and shame for our nation in general, or started to care more about privacy.
So the real problem is: Who is deciding who is an expert and who not?
I mean just think of the case of the media industry. Freakin’ hard to be a judge, if you ask me.
Is there some mechanism to choose experts? The only one I know is the trust mechanism. Which has a whole area of criminal science dedicated to it, called “social engineering”, and more holes than the Internet Explorer. So what else?
These are fancy words, for what is nothing else that automated educated guessing. (And re-vectorization.)
Yes, you can guess that a round shape is round, even when a couple of pixels are missing. But you can not guess that one of these missing pixels actually was a dent. So this mechanism here would still make that dent vanish. Just in a less-obvious way. (Which can be very bad, if that dent was critical.)
Essentially if you have a lossy process, you are always going to have a lack of details, and that’s not going to change. Just that this process does to images when compared to e.g JPEG, what MP3 does to music when compared to analog recordings.
In analog recordings, loss is audible noise. In MP3 it’s the opposite. Usually mostly not audible, but still missing. In JPEG, loss is visible artifacts. In this method it’s the opposite. Usually mostly not visible, but still missing.
Actually, it developed a distaste for anything female, except its own growing femininity. And its primary food source was a early biped called Homo Erotica Bubblus Distortensis Realitis.;)
Well, in my opinion, either a court must decide to destroy all samples, or the public must interpret a couple of amendments, and burn the storage place down to the ground.
Unfortunately the first group is bought by terrorists (parts of the government). And the second group is a herd of cattle caught in their own consumption.:/
No need to throw in bullshit fantasy words like “copyright/trademarks/patents” in there. It’s a physical object. The word is: OW.NER.SHIP.
You own your body. That is perhaps the single most foundational law of all laws ever written. (Countless laws use it as a base. E.g. all basic rights!)
So you own your blood sample. plain and simple. If they take it away from you, even as a baby, without your agreement, that is theft. Plain and simple. And a huge invasion of privacy too. Perhaps even bodily harm. Of course as a baby, your parents are your legal representatives.
But about the rest of your comment: I completely and wholeheartedly agree!
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If a large fungus fits your definition of immortal, then yes. ^^
Don’t need to kill that which you can throw in the meat grinder. Let’s see how much that zombie can do when it’s in the form of burger patties. Unless it got T-1000-like powers, not very much, I guess... ;)
The only problem with your logic: IP is a solely imaginary concept.
So this is a very very delusional (and also imaginary) zombie, feasting solely on imaginary brains.
Which makes sense, since only an imaginary being can live off of imaginary brains, and not get upset by energy (or money) preservation laws.
You may recall that McBride was the brains behind the Linux lawsuits that SCO launched
What brains??
where he escapes with some IP intact
Repeat after me: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. AS. INTELLECTUAL. PROPERTY! BITSPACE. IS. NOT. MEATSPACE!
It’s a physically impossible concept. It’s just as absurd as asking what was before time itself.
So don’t you ever dare to use that FUD word again!
Apart from it looking horrible, aliasing stairways are the antithesis to stability of an object. E.g. a bone with aliasing would be much less stable. And don’t even think about lying on it and not causing painful pressure points.
No thanks. I like my body parts casted or grown.
No, you got that wrong. Not the users should be taxed. But the ones who made the operating system. Based on the amount of users of the OS, times the amount of found infections of it.
It’s analog to the environmental tax for companies who leave scorched earth... (Does the US have such a tax? I bet not. :/)
We really (start to) live in an industrial feudalism like I always foretold.
With companies owning the “town”, and making the rules.
I guess it’s a natural result of two things:
1. Natural selection, life, and the law of the jungle resulting from it.
2. Groupings of humans becoming way too large (>50-100 people), and thereby making accountability and morale of the individuals to their communities go away and everyone becoming an anonymous face.
I guess if I would found a country, I’d make it illegal for a group to consist of more than 50 entities. (A entity could also be a group, to allow larger groupings. But the rules would make it so that these groups could not act as one to void the limitation.)
But what does the amount of Navi’i, Smurfs and strangulation victims... and the amount of people with high blood pressure, sunburn and helldemon genes have to do with this?
There is a reason for that behavior.
Primitive people think that when they made a decision, they would have to stand by it, no matter what. Even when everybody, including themselves, found out that it’s totally fuckin’ retarded.
And the media fosters this, by calling people who change their position “flip-floppers”, no matter if they do it because they are a banneret in the wind, or because they gathered new information suggesting something else.
Fact is, that it’s no shame to state that one was wrong, but leaned from it.
You can detect the honesty and general interest in the best choice of a politician that way.
But don’t expect him to become very powerful, as the media and the ragtag is way too retarded to get this right and not destroy a honest politician’s career. (My theory is, that that is why we don’t ever see such a person.)
I’ve got my own sense of right and wrong, and don’t need anyone telling me what I should or should not do.
Left-foot breaking, motor breaking and manual transmission are all useful professional techniques.
Maybe you haven’t got the skill to use them. But I prefer to teach myself the skills, rather than just limiting my abilities.
For the same reason I also don’t just do trial-and-error cooking, but read up on the physics happening in gastronomy. :)
And I don’t just try to get girls. I make it a science. Because I just assume that I can become the best in the world, if I just want it enough.
Hasn’t failed me yet. Wouldn’t fail you too.
Hate to tell ya after all these years, but sleeping bags usually are two-way, so you can open them on either side. ^^
Col. Hans Landa? Is that you?
From one beer? Nah. One good cocktail makes me glow a little. Two and i’m happy. Three and I am at the best level and had enough. Then after 1.5 hours, I’m back to somewhere between glowing and happy. The rest follows an exponential curve downwards.
So, it all depends on what you still call “drunk”.
I personally prefer to NOT sober up quickly. Because: Why would you cut short on the very point you’re drinking alcohol in the first place? :)
But I got my tried and true method anyway: A filet steak on the evening BEFORE, enough hydration while, and a slice of bread with raw ham plus some pickled gherkins on the morning after. I hadn’t had a hangover ever since. And I never ever had to thrown up from alcohol in my life.
It’s a simple solution, that some of my friends also do: The evening before going out, we eat a piece of good quality red meat. A filet steak preferably. That’s it. No hangover. No headache. Nothing.
We’re doing this for years.
Of if I understand this right (and I’m very sure I do), their plan is to completely and totally remove all creativity, and just focus on milking cash cows... Which of course makes no sense, since after a few iterations, they will be empty and their business, now unable to come up with new ideas, will die.
Yeah, short-term cash with complete ignorance of long-term sustainability is all the craze nowadays. It’s managers that just care to look good until they move on to the next company, leaving the last to collapse like a house of cards. And so on.
If you are someone who still owns a company, and still has the power to steer it, be aware of those types. Be very aware. They will burn your business to the ground. Even if it took you your whole life to build it up.
Fast, Good, Cheap, pick 2...
We’re the government. We don’t need any of those. ;)
Wrong. (Commercial) resale is never illegal. It’s perhaps against the terms of the sale. But that can be disputed. In fact it was disputed, and shown in court no not be valid, multiple times.
What fraud? Who exactly got frauded? Nobody.
I did only read the summary, and it doesn’t look like they used bots.
And if I go to the supermarket, and buy all the bread with my own real money, it does not matter if it pissed off others who did fail to buy it before me.
Only impersonating *other* persons would be illegal. But “impersonating a person”? ...that term does not make any sense. You always are a person. A script between you and something else does not change it more, that the tool (e.g. wrench) between you and a machine. It’s just a tool.
And about impersonating a non-existing person... well, it’s not exactly proper, but it also doesn’t hurt anyone. So what?
Legitimate media is extremely competitive. Want to start a TV station? A Newspaper? Put out a movie? Music?
You mean traditional ones? What do those things have to do with legitimate media?
"How messed up is the US when we have to take cues on privacy laws from, of all people, the Germans?"
Yeah, because we are exactly like our great-grandparents.
And we did not completely flip to the other side of left extremism and shame for our nation in general, or started to care more about privacy.
</sarcasm> (or is that cynism?)
So the real problem is: Who is deciding who is an expert and who not?
I mean just think of the case of the media industry.
Freakin’ hard to be a judge, if you ask me.
Is there some mechanism to choose experts?
The only one I know is the trust mechanism. Which has a whole area of criminal science dedicated to it, called “social engineering”, and more holes than the Internet Explorer.
So what else?
These are fancy words, for what is nothing else that automated educated guessing. (And re-vectorization.)
Yes, you can guess that a round shape is round, even when a couple of pixels are missing. But you can not guess that one of these missing pixels actually was a dent. So this mechanism here would still make that dent vanish. Just in a less-obvious way. (Which can be very bad, if that dent was critical.)
Essentially if you have a lossy process, you are always going to have a lack of details, and that’s not going to change.
Just that this process does to images when compared to e.g JPEG, what MP3 does to music when compared to analog recordings.
In analog recordings, loss is audible noise. In MP3 it’s the opposite. Usually mostly not audible, but still missing.
In JPEG, loss is visible artifacts. In this method it’s the opposite. Usually mostly not visible, but still missing.
Actually, it developed a distaste for anything female, except its own growing femininity. And its primary food source was a early biped called Homo Erotica Bubblus Distortensis Realitis. ;)
Oh, and it eats puny Googlesaurus Androidius and Applesaurus Iphonicus for breakfast, lunch and dinner. ^^
Well, in my opinion, either a court must decide to destroy all samples, or the public must interpret a couple of amendments, and burn the storage place down to the ground.
Unfortunately the first group is bought by terrorists (parts of the government). And the second group is a herd of cattle caught in their own consumption. :/
No need to throw in bullshit fantasy words like “copyright/trademarks/patents” in there.
It’s a physical object. The word is: OW.NER.SHIP.
You own your body. That is perhaps the single most foundational law of all laws ever written. (Countless laws use it as a base. E.g. all basic rights!)
So you own your blood sample. plain and simple. If they take it away from you, even as a baby, without your agreement, that is theft. Plain and simple. And a huge invasion of privacy too. Perhaps even bodily harm.
Of course as a baby, your parents are your legal representatives.
But about the rest of your comment: I completely and wholeheartedly agree!