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From the bbc article the bollards move slowly.
And that, at least, is a plus point. Can you imagine the horror if they were fast? We'd have vicious gangs of Keep Left signs molesting motorists and pedestrians and...
OK, stop that. It's far too silly. It started as a nice skit about old women mugging young men, but now it's just silly. And you can tell those are not proper Keep Left signs. Be off, the lot of you. And you, come with me. Now, something sensible and military: precision drilling. SQUAAAD - CAMP IT UUUP!
let's say there is one murder per 50,000 in the population. let's say that the murder of this person affects 5 people (including the deceased) so badly that the rest of their life is ruined. on average, this will happen to each involved at the midpoint of their lives (let's say).
At the midpoint of the lives of four of the five people, yes, I'll agree. But for one of them, I imagine it comes pretty near the end of their life.
I read a Batman comic recently in which a corporate fraudster got a change of venue to Gotham in order to get a jury that would believe his insanity plea. The judge didn't like that kind of lawyerly evil, but accepted that the fraudster was indeed insane... and sent him to Arkham.
All the inmates of Arkham had been guilty of some truly appalling crimes, but even the Joker himself agreed that this white-collar criminal was the worst person he'd ever met.
If a spammer ever got into that company... ugh, it doesn't bear thinking about.
Who will be the first to blame the owners of said unprotected relays for our spam woes, as opposed to the spammers themselves?
It would be nice if it was still the August of the net and running an open relay was considered a courtesy to other users - but the spammers have spoiled that. Nowadays there's no excuse for running an open relay: if you do you're either evil or incompetent, and are a danger to the rest of the net.
Officials at the Federal Trade Commission, who planned to announce the arrests in Washington on Thursday, told U.S. postal investigators they had received more than 10,000 complaints about unwanted e-mails sent by the company.
So they do act. Everybody, remember to forward a copy of all your spam to uce@ftc.gov as well as the usual post to nanas and LART to abuse@wherever. It seems that if the FTC build enough info on a spammer then they really will do something about it!
This isn't about scientific publications of the kind you'd find on arxiv.org; it's about scientific publications of the kind people buy to look impressive on their coffee-table. Popularisations.
Of all people I'd have thought he'd spell 'evolution' correctly. Still, at least he wasn't using that Creationist keyboard which has the 'o' and 'i' keycaps switched over:-)
Will we leave exploration of the universe to the Von Neumann Machines and maroon ourselves on Earth?
Does it matter whether the universe is settled by biological von Neumann machines like us, or by mechanical von Neumann machines like our robots, as long as it actually does get settled by somebody? I for one wish our von Neumann successors the very best of luck in their explorations.
It makes more sense to me to have the brain acting as some form of 'aerial' to pick up [the] mind. Our brains have evolved to be the best aerials in the animal kingdom so far.
Interesting idea - but in that case how do drugs work?
Chemicals and brain damage can induce problems of coordination and motor control - that works either way, of course, since perhaps they're interfering with the interface to the external component of the mind. They can also induce sensory hallucination: again plausible, maybe they make the brain transmit bad data to the external component.
But chemicals and brain damage can also alter our consciousness itself, our worldview and our personality. Alcohol can make me aggressive, cannabis can make me relaxed and peaceable and probably rather dull, testosterone makes me horny... If my consciousness is the product of an external component, rather than of the material brain, I'm quite at a loss to say how these chemicals can have this effect.
But it would have to be no more than one copy of any work at a time
Fine.
and the copies would have to be not for further distribution in the US
Also fine.
and it would have to be for the private use of the importer.
Still fine.
And probably a business couldn't receive it, but a natural person would have to.
This is again fine.
So: if allofmp3 turns out to be illegal or if the *AAs start suing its customers, how about it? I think the Russian MP3-DVD By Mail-Order business plan shows great promise. Venture capital, anyone?
Nope... French tanks are the ones with enormous firepower, great performance, and terrific soldiers inside them, but which are unfortunately in entirely the wrong location. British tanks are the ones the Americans give the joke IFF circuits to. German tanks are the ones we hope like hell they never decide to use again.
It's Italian tanks that have the high reverse performance.
Well... me. Definitely and absolutely, without doubt. I'll look out of the window, see thick cloud cover, swear loudly and go back to bed.
Or, weather permitting, I'll be sitting outside in the sunshine right through the whole thing, with telescope, card for projections, solar filter and camera.
The British military, however, is never going to waste tens of millions of dollars invading some dinky island server farm because Apple is upset.
Probably not tens of millions. All it would probably take is a boat full of coppers. If the Sealand boys decide they want to make a fight of it, fine: make that a boat full of SBS. The place is only a few miles offshore.
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And that, at least, is a plus point. Can you imagine the horror if they were fast? We'd have vicious gangs of Keep Left signs molesting motorists and pedestrians and...
OK, stop that. It's far too silly. It started as a nice skit about old women mugging young men, but now it's just silly. And you can tell those are not proper Keep Left signs. Be off, the lot of you. And you, come with me. Now, something sensible and military: precision drilling. SQUAAAD - CAMP IT UUUP!
Aw! Guys, if only for nostalgia's sake: how about a curses version? I can't be the only one with fond memories of 5.1 for DOS...
At the midpoint of the lives of four of the five people, yes, I'll agree. But for one of them, I imagine it comes pretty near the end of their life.
All the inmates of Arkham had been guilty of some truly appalling crimes, but even the Joker himself agreed that this white-collar criminal was the worst person he'd ever met.
If a spammer ever got into that company... ugh, it doesn't bear thinking about.
According to Shiksaa, they're Alan Ralsky's little fish. Nail him, and the world's spam load really will drop.
It would be nice if it was still the August of the net and running an open relay was considered a courtesy to other users - but the spammers have spoiled that. Nowadays there's no excuse for running an open relay: if you do you're either evil or incompetent, and are a danger to the rest of the net.
So they do act. Everybody, remember to forward a copy of all your spam to uce@ftc.gov as well as the usual post to nanas and LART to abuse@wherever. It seems that if the FTC build enough info on a spammer then they really will do something about it!
Hang on...
This isn't about scientific publications of the kind you'd find on arxiv.org; it's about scientific publications of the kind people buy to look impressive on their coffee-table. Popularisations.
Of all people I'd have thought he'd spell 'evolution' correctly. Still, at least he wasn't using that Creationist keyboard which has the 'o' and 'i' keycaps switched over :-)
Dawkins managed to go a whole article without moaning about godbotherers! Is this a record?
I thought NATO was a military alliance, not a trade agreement.
Does it matter whether the universe is settled by biological von Neumann machines like us, or by mechanical von Neumann machines like our robots, as long as it actually does get settled by somebody? I for one wish our von Neumann successors the very best of luck in their explorations.
Interesting idea - but in that case how do drugs work?
Chemicals and brain damage can induce problems of coordination and motor control - that works either way, of course, since perhaps they're interfering with the interface to the external component of the mind. They can also induce sensory hallucination: again plausible, maybe they make the brain transmit bad data to the external component.
But chemicals and brain damage can also alter our consciousness itself, our worldview and our personality. Alcohol can make me aggressive, cannabis can make me relaxed and peaceable and probably rather dull, testosterone makes me horny... If my consciousness is the product of an external component, rather than of the material brain, I'm quite at a loss to say how these chemicals can have this effect.
Um... who did you think I had in mind when I signed myself 'Frank S., NY, NY'?
Fine.
and the copies would have to be not for further distribution in the US
Also fine.
and it would have to be for the private use of the importer.
Still fine.
And probably a business couldn't receive it, but a natural person would have to.
This is again fine.
So: if allofmp3 turns out to be illegal or if the *AAs start suing its customers, how about it? I think the Russian MP3-DVD By Mail-Order business plan shows great promise. Venture capital, anyone?
Just out of interest, where else do you suggest?
I'd just like to say that this is a damned lie. The music industry has never had anything whatever to do with organised crime.
- Frank S., NY, NY
Nope... French tanks are the ones with enormous firepower, great performance, and terrific soldiers inside them, but which are unfortunately in entirely the wrong location. British tanks are the ones the Americans give the joke IFF circuits to. German tanks are the ones we hope like hell they never decide to use again.
It's Italian tanks that have the high reverse performance.
And if it wasn't for the Germans we'd all be speaking French. Your point was?
Well... me. Definitely and absolutely, without doubt. I'll look out of the window, see thick cloud cover, swear loudly and go back to bed.
Or, weather permitting, I'll be sitting outside in the sunshine right through the whole thing, with telescope, card for projections, solar filter and camera.
Speak for yourself.
- K. Wojtyla, Rome
DRM crackers?
Probably not tens of millions. All it would probably take is a boat full of coppers. If the Sealand boys decide they want to make a fight of it, fine: make that a boat full of SBS. The place is only a few miles offshore.
As Timothy McVeigh's accomplice's brother put it: Because there's some wackos out there!