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  1. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    And then somehow they've convinced the common man that rationing money is a good idea .You get all these people who don't understand how economy works clamoring for going back to the gold standard.

  2. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Some libraries actually have people waiting to get on the computers so they do limit you.

  3. Re:Won't work in America on Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Or you can buy a reasonable used laptop at Goodwill for $25

    I don't know what the Goodwill stores are like in your area, but I have never seen a computer for sale at any Goodwill store around here (Indianapolis area), and I've gone to several every first Saturday of the month where everything is half off. That is if you aren't making this and everything else in your post up.

  4. Re:Food Source on Should We Kill All The Mosquitoes? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What I thought they need to do is to genetically engineer another creature that has a food source other than animal blood that can serve as a food supply for the bigger animals.

  5. Re: Clinton should be in jail!!! on Clinton's First Email Server Was a Power Mac Tower (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's why I've been pointing out that guns are pretty ineffective combat weapons and that people who believe in their armament rights (I've stopped referring to the amendments when talking about rights that the amendments are merely a sham at protecting) should insist on tanks and planes. I also point out the Shays and Whiskey Rebellions and refer to them as the good guys. I also make people aware of Thomas Hobbes and Alexander Hamilton and refer to them as villains and darlings of the university and politics circles.

  6. Re: Guns 'n stuff on Feds Spend Nearly $500K To 'Combat Online Trolling' (freebeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I've been pointing out that guns are pretty ineffective combat weapons and that people who believe in their armament rights (I've stopped referring to the amendments when talking about rights that the amendments are merely a sham at protecting)...

    ...should insist on tanks and planes... FTFM.

  7. Re:Clinton should be in jail!!! on Clinton's First Email Server Was a Power Mac Tower (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Because Alexander Hamilton never intended politicians to be prosecuted for their crimes. That's why he set up a different system of justice for politicians than for the rest of us.

  8. Re: Guns 'n stuff on Feds Spend Nearly $500K To 'Combat Online Trolling' (freebeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I've been pointing out that guns are pretty ineffective combat weapons and that people who believe in their armament rights (I've stopped referring to the amendments when talking about rights that the amendments are merely a sham at protecting). I also point out the Shays and Whiskey Rebellions and refer to them as the good guys. I also make people aware of Thomas Hobbes and Alexander Hamilton and refer to them as villains and darlings of the university and politics circles.

  9. Re:Trool? on Feds Spend Nearly $500K To 'Combat Online Trolling' (freebeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't believe in trolls. Everything less than violence is funny.

    Apparently you don't believe in stooges either.

  10. Re:GPL on Is Apache OpenOffice Finally On the Way Out? (apache.org) · · Score: 1

    It's funny in the way Dilbert is funny.

  11. Re:GPL on Is Apache OpenOffice Finally On the Way Out? (apache.org) · · Score: 2

    In my best Foghorn Leghorn impression: "That there Microsoft bit is what they call a joke, son!"

  12. Re: Great just what we need on India's Richest Man Launches 4G LTE Network, Offers Unlimited Free Voice Calls (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    No matter how you look at it the parent post was poorly written and led with international calls, so that had me confused

  13. ... until everyone accepts their mandatory cyber upgrade.

  14. By "public domain" she means figures that are public, but not released directly from Apple for this matter. Most of the figures they are using are not public domain, but released from Apple to either Ireland or the EU is my gist of it so most of the numbers are supposedly beyond question... except for the public domain ones.

  15. No, willing to get paid so little for it is.

  16. Re: Demand on Companies Are Developing More Apps With Fewer Developers (fortune.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Which is why i would eat 10 pizzas and buy 20 laptops, cars, houses, etc. if I only had the money.

    Oh, wait... I wouldn't. I'm tired of that old chestnut of infinite wants, limited resources going unchallenged. The first is only true over time and the latter is generally true over a fixed period of time.

  17. It was my understanding they have what some call AI screenscrape the data.Other people say it is insufficiently intelligent to be called AI.

  18. Re:Microsoft doesn't release its code on ReactOS 0.4.2 Released: Supports Linux Filesystems, .NET Applications, and Doom 3 (reactos.org) · · Score: 2

    There have been leaks of Microsoft Windows code.

  19. Authoritarian regimes... No! really? on British Companies Are Selling Advanced Spy Tech To Authoritarian Regimes (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Because all world governments are a lot more authoritarian than they let on. Just stop and think about the list of things you can't do. Ever thought you could try and reason your way out of punishment because you really didn't harm anyone?

  20. Re: How does that work? on FBI Authorized Informants To Break The Law 22,800 Times In 4 Years (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    According to Thomas Hobbes whose philosophy holds sway over political circles, as long as the FBI asked them to do it, it isn't actually a crime. As for why there are victimless crimes on the books. Hobbes blieves the State should have absolute authority and that the state needs to protect you from yourself and is permissive in the sense that guard rails permit you to stay on the road. His example used hedges.

  21. According to Thomas Hobbes, whose philosophy holds sway over political circles the FBI is the law and can injure no one.

  22. Re: On Hobbes and the Hamiltonians on Group Wants To Shut Down Tor For a Day On September 1 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Somehow you missed the word tempered entirely, or perhaps it holds a different significance for you than me. Violence on the level of LARPing won't usually shorten anybody's life, and I think that in instances like protestors intentionally blocking a road it might be a good idea if they could expect a certain level of violence in response.

  23. We live under a government created under principles that Thomas Hobbes came up with and while others views of man were too optimistic, Hobbes view of Man in nature reflected his poor home life growing up and he had no sense of how families actually work. I have said that I will be family for anyone who will be family for me, and that simply does not fit into Hobbes' philosophy. The Hamiltonians played dirty when pushing for passage of the Constitution. The Federalist papers were filled with bully and con language. The Hamiltonians broke with tradition and made it so that passage was not of unanimous State decision. Hobbes had a radical hatred of violence. I feel that violence is a natural part of the human experience. The reservation of violence to the State interferes with the natural experience of violence by man. It should be tempered, but not removed entirely. Hobbes decision to make the Sovereign and not the Pope the decider of religion was not particularly novel and merely created many smaller Holy Roman Empires, when it came to religion. Religion should be the decision of individuals only. His ideas hampered discourse and the free flow of ideas by Balkanizing the world when it came to individuals. Hobbes was a Dr. Frankenstein, but worse, he had no idea what parts of Man he was even using to construct his so-called Artificial Man. He had little indication that the parts that make up Man were represented in whole in his Artificial Man. And in fact it is not. Hobbes had no sense of personal preference, When he said Man was the same, he meant that Man was the same in the same sense the Cybermen from Doctor Who were all the same.

  24. Re:Germany, authoritarian and Hobbes. on German Minister Wants Facial Recognition Software At Airports and Train Stations (www.rte.ie) · · Score: 1

    Well, world political theory is centered around Thomas Hobbes crackpot authoritarian theories, so it was only a matter of time.
    We live under a government created under principles that Hobbes came up with and while others views of man were too optimistic, Hobbes view of Man in nature reflected his poor home life growing up and he had no sense of how families actually work. I have said that I will be family for anyone who will be family for me, and that simply does not fit into Hobbes' philosophy. The Hamiltonians played dirty when pushing for passage of the Constitution. The Federalist papers were filled with bully and con language. The Hamiltonians broke with tradition and made it so that passage was not of unanimous State decision. Hobbes had a radical hatred of violence. I feel that violence is a natural part of the human experience. The reservation of violence to the State interferes with the natural experience of violence by man. It should be tempered, but not removed entirely. Hobbes decision to make the Sovereign and not the Pope the decider of religion was not particularly novel and merely created many smaller Holy Roman Empires, when it came to religion. Religion should be the decision of individuals only. His ideas hampered discourse and the free flow of ideas by Balkanizing the world when it came to individuals. Hobbes was a Dr. Frankenstein, but worse, he had no idea what parts of Man he was even using to construct his so-called Artificial Man. He had little indication that the parts that make up Man were represented in whole in his Artificial Man. And in fact it is not. Hobbes had no sense of personal preference, When he said Man was the same, he meant that Man was the same in the same sense the Cybermen from Doctor Who were all the same.

  25. Re:Is there something to understand on 'SingularDTV' Will Use Ethereum For DRM On A Sci-Fi TV Show (rocknerd.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    What I understood was you buy one piece of their digital currency. This serves as a DRM token. Whenever you want to watch the show you resubmit the record of owning the digital currency piece/DRM token and they will stream it to you. There may be the added process of creating a new record in the transaction database every time a token is resubmitted and a new number representing the new transaction returned to the user. That would make sense to me. Or maybe there is a rental model, and the currency is added back into their wallet when the rental is requested. Or something like all of that.