Well, yeah, but the admins do their best to prevent it. Besides, when you start over there's no way to bring stuff with you, so it's kind of a moot point...
Every time I have to go shopping for a new keyboard, I make sure I put my hands on it for a few minutes and close my eyes.
I do not care about extra keys, CD/Email/Connect/whatever else. (I'll admit that volume controls are occasionally handy, though.) I'm just testing the responsive clicks, how it sounds and feels. This thing is my input tool for probably 90% of the communications I care about in a day -- you'd better believe I want it to be easy on my hands, distinctive to my ears, and have a nice sharp snap back with each key.
The day I find a keyboard that somehow sounds exactly like an old mechanical typewriter, though, is the day that I fall in love with a brand and never stray.:)
the fact is the US is on the whole relatively responsible with that military power, and does not use it to repress people
Don't know what America you've been living in (probably the pretty shiny one in your mind), but the one I live in routinely uses cops and military personnel to quiet peaceful protests, steals money from constituents to reelect painfully corrupt politicians, and has recently decided that nobody needs rights unless it says so.
I'm not sure I like this place so much any more, these days. John Ashcroft is why.
The difference between us and China is how many years of fear our heads of state have been living in. Given another fifteen or so, unless something remarkably drastic happens in between, and you'll see similar restrictions on freedom of speech, freedom of assembly (at this point, it's kind of moot -- if the FBI decides you're a "terrorist" they can have you detained indefinately without notifying anyone, so why not just label anybody who dislikes government a "terrorist"? It's pretty damn easy for them) and pretty much anything else you can think of.
Hell, don't bother with that. Law takes forever. Technology is fast; send them a few copies of the virus you just recieved. Make their day a happy one too.
...unless the FBI pretends you're a "terrorist", in which case they will give you a frontal lobotomy, sell all your belongings at auction, and deport you to Sweden. And the man who'll make it possible is John Ashcroft! Give him a big hand, folks!
You're mixing up cause with effect. The Red Cross may have started to do it for the blood sugar, but believe me, there are people for which it is an incentive.
Where I went to high school there was practically a small buffet next to the blood donor site, because people gave more if there was free food. The school wanted the blood drive to go well, so they threw pizzas and beverages in on top of the cookies the RC was handing out.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work.
Pay close attention to politics today. There is a small amount of hand-wringing going on about how so few Americans want to bother with politics, but nobody's fixing the problem. Nobody's reducing term lengths (if terms were a year long, all of them, period, there wouldn't be lobbying because trying to buy someone who won't be there next year is pointless), nobody's providing incentives to voters (you think I'm joking about giving out free stuff at voting booths, but I'm not...look at the Red Cross, they hand out cookies with blood donations and it helps), and no real attempts are being made at making it easy for cheap candidates to get in.
Remove television ads altogether. The system will react in a good way. Encourage voting. The system will react in a good way. None of these things are happening because the people who decide these things have their jobs because the system sucks.
Yeah -- there's no reward for voting in the real world.
I still say that if cookies were given out, or even whole potluck dinners, at voting booths, the percentage of voting population would increase to 80% or better. If you give out free stuff at voting booths, people will show up!
Hell, tie a lottery to the damn registration process if you want people to register. Tax dollars get wasted on useless things every day -- might as well waste them on something useFUL.
These games have all the features necessary to become economies, and they become economies. No shock there.
It's like hearing someone talk about the good old days of M:TG, before people became interested in how much a card was worth. They were neat, yeah -- but they were immature. The mature version of the game is the one you end up with after the economy is created within it.
If your complaint is that the economy seems artificial...wait five years. They'll be just as realistic as the US economy, and just as hard to excel in.
"The way I see it, archives are much like SPAM; I never opted in, why should it be my responsibility to opt out? I manage a number of domains and the process of refining robots.txt files and submitting myself to the Wayback Machine for removal seems to be intrusive. Worse, domains I've abandoned (which have lapsed or been re-registered by someone else) are forever archived in the Machine and I have no way to exclude them. Why should I have to deliberately remove my copyrighted material from an archive which was never granted permission to replicate that material in the first place?"
Well, frankly, if your primary concern is not "how you feel" but "whether other people will view my site or not", then you should let WayBack do its job.
Whenever I've gone to a web page and found that they've blocked themselves (usually only obvious if their main page is unavailable on WayBack) I know that the people running that website don't give a damn about the content there. People who underestimate the value of content usually aren't worth my time; they say stupid things, like "Why would I read a book?" or "So what if the plot sucks, it's just an action movie."
If your concern is appearing intelligent to your customers/readers, then you want WayBack crawling all over your pages. If you have no such concern, then feel free to tell WayBack to stop archiving you.
As for why you should have to ask someone to remove their copies of your crap from their archive...you offered it publicly. If you can't handle a public archive of your public site, get the hell off the Net.
Think of the trust you can gain when a user ends up at the WayBack and sees that you've been publishing for X years. Think of the spirit of cooperation produced when you tell WayBack, "Yeah, archive me. I'm a valuable source, and I participate in a community."
WayBack is a free resource. If what you're doing has no return value, no ability to be updated, and no reason to be archived...then what's worthwhile about what you're doing?
While it's true that overprescription is a problem these days, that doesn't mean that the condition is nonexistent.
Personally, I've been dreading the days of wrist pain that I thought might come along some day. I've had a few weeks here and there where my wrists ached; it's a sharp, distinct pain and it's present despite motion. Smacking my wrist, rotating my hand to work the tendons, etc., helped to some degree.
When it flares up, I use a wrist brace. When it doesn't, I don't. However, I do have a variety of stances; my body has a tendency to slouch in the chair, and my wrists change position over a few hours time because of that. I don't know if my poor posture is actually preventing repetitive stress injuries or not, but my wrists hadn't hurt me for a long time, not until sometime last year or so. (I've been writing and coding since about fourth grade, and I've just finished my second year of college. A fairly good track record, I think.)
Don't worry about it too much. There'll be cyber-wrists available in five or six years, and in another two or three they'll give you an injection of nanites that coat your radial nerve in Teflon or something. The problem will be solved.
If you do end up IMing, use Trillian. It adds logging to IM systems that don't already support it, it allows you to interface with anybody unwilling to use Trillian, and the people you want to communicate with don't have to change anything they do. Just make sure you have one of each IM account and you can IM anybody, plus have IRC logging in the same software.
That was kind of the point made earlier -- it's news because the "real" Peter Parker was a geek.
Besides, it's a movie. If you've never watched a movie and had issues with something it did, you haven't watched enough movies. Go see it. If you like it, fine, if you don't, go buy the series on tape and GGLS on DVD and shut the hell up about it.
Car research should be stopped now; do you know how many people are already being killed every day by cars? The numbers are staggering.
Car manufacturers are researching ways to make cars drive more efficiently (increasing the likelihood of long-term rampant roadkilling sprees) and increase their top speed (maximizing the damage done when one of these murderous machines hits its target).
Did I mention that car ownership is on the rise? Did I ALSO mention that selling cars is a huge industry? I see conspiracies everywhere, trying to promote the pro-car lobbies!
Something must be done. Write your political representatives and notify them that -- along with this newfangled "nanotechnology" thing -- you want the car lobby stopped.
Yeah, but by 2050 you won't be able to tell which ones are the robots and which ones are the humans!
Soccer players will get mechanical legs, internal communication devices, pain filters and oxygen-producing nanomachines in their bloodstream. So what if the robot doesn't get tired or feel pain -- neither will the humans, and they'll effectively be telepathic as well.
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Hmmm...I'm guessing Microsoft's bids on this will fall on deaf ears...
Well, yeah, but the admins do their best to prevent it. Besides, when you start over there's no way to bring stuff with you, so it's kind of a moot point...
I don't see you doing it. If it's so easy, put together an application that does it too, and release it freely.
I do not care about extra keys, CD/Email/Connect/whatever else. (I'll admit that volume controls are occasionally handy, though.) I'm just testing the responsive clicks, how it sounds and feels. This thing is my input tool for probably 90% of the communications I care about in a day -- you'd better believe I want it to be easy on my hands, distinctive to my ears, and have a nice sharp snap back with each key.
The day I find a keyboard that somehow sounds exactly like an old mechanical typewriter, though, is the day that I fall in love with a brand and never stray. :)
I'm not sure I like this place so much any more, these days. John Ashcroft is why.
The difference between us and China is how many years of fear our heads of state have been living in. Given another fifteen or so, unless something remarkably drastic happens in between, and you'll see similar restrictions on freedom of speech, freedom of assembly (at this point, it's kind of moot -- if the FBI decides you're a "terrorist" they can have you detained indefinately without notifying anyone, so why not just label anybody who dislikes government a "terrorist"? It's pretty damn easy for them) and pretty much anything else you can think of.
Welcome to the cherry pie, buddy.
Hell, don't bother with that. Law takes forever. Technology is fast; send them a few copies of the virus you just recieved. Make their day a happy one too.
...unless the FBI pretends you're a "terrorist", in which case they will give you a frontal lobotomy, sell all your belongings at auction, and deport you to Sweden. And the man who'll make it possible is John Ashcroft! Give him a big hand, folks!
Where I went to high school there was practically a small buffet next to the blood donor site, because people gave more if there was free food. The school wanted the blood drive to go well, so they threw pizzas and beverages in on top of the cookies the RC was handing out.
Remove television ads altogether. The system will react in a good way. Encourage voting. The system will react in a good way. None of these things are happening because the people who decide these things have their jobs because the system sucks.
Yeah -- there's no reward for voting in the real world. I still say that if cookies were given out, or even whole potluck dinners, at voting booths, the percentage of voting population would increase to 80% or better. If you give out free stuff at voting booths, people will show up! Hell, tie a lottery to the damn registration process if you want people to register. Tax dollars get wasted on useless things every day -- might as well waste them on something useFUL.
...yeah, because otherwise someone might take it seriously.
Perhaps because you cannot learn how to make new wheels until you've made a few old ones?
It's like hearing someone talk about the good old days of M:TG, before people became interested in how much a card was worth. They were neat, yeah -- but they were immature. The mature version of the game is the one you end up with after the economy is created within it.
If your complaint is that the economy seems artificial...wait five years. They'll be just as realistic as the US economy, and just as hard to excel in.
Well, frankly, if your primary concern is not "how you feel" but "whether other people will view my site or not", then you should let WayBack do its job.
Whenever I've gone to a web page and found that they've blocked themselves (usually only obvious if their main page is unavailable on WayBack) I know that the people running that website don't give a damn about the content there. People who underestimate the value of content usually aren't worth my time; they say stupid things, like "Why would I read a book?" or "So what if the plot sucks, it's just an action movie."
If your concern is appearing intelligent to your customers/readers, then you want WayBack crawling all over your pages. If you have no such concern, then feel free to tell WayBack to stop archiving you.
As for why you should have to ask someone to remove their copies of your crap from their archive...you offered it publicly. If you can't handle a public archive of your public site, get the hell off the Net.
Think of the trust you can gain when a user ends up at the WayBack and sees that you've been publishing for X years. Think of the spirit of cooperation produced when you tell WayBack, "Yeah, archive me. I'm a valuable source, and I participate in a community."
WayBack is a free resource. If what you're doing has no return value, no ability to be updated, and no reason to be archived...then what's worthwhile about what you're doing?
Yes, but in a lot more wavelengths, and possibly in ultrasound, as well.
"That's a great synthetic pet! Let's make ourselves a copy!"
"Wait, it's patented."
"Enh, we'll just reverse-engineer it from the neighbors."
Gene-swapping is BORN!
Personally, I've been dreading the days of wrist pain that I thought might come along some day. I've had a few weeks here and there where my wrists ached; it's a sharp, distinct pain and it's present despite motion. Smacking my wrist, rotating my hand to work the tendons, etc., helped to some degree.
When it flares up, I use a wrist brace. When it doesn't, I don't. However, I do have a variety of stances; my body has a tendency to slouch in the chair, and my wrists change position over a few hours time because of that. I don't know if my poor posture is actually preventing repetitive stress injuries or not, but my wrists hadn't hurt me for a long time, not until sometime last year or so. (I've been writing and coding since about fourth grade, and I've just finished my second year of college. A fairly good track record, I think.)
Don't worry about it too much. There'll be cyber-wrists available in five or six years, and in another two or three they'll give you an injection of nanites that coat your radial nerve in Teflon or something. The problem will be solved.
Waaaaaiiiit...are you saying the crystals might not be authentic?
If you do end up IMing, use Trillian. It adds logging to IM systems that don't already support it, it allows you to interface with anybody unwilling to use Trillian, and the people you want to communicate with don't have to change anything they do. Just make sure you have one of each IM account and you can IM anybody, plus have IRC logging in the same software.
Besides, it's a movie. If you've never watched a movie and had issues with something it did, you haven't watched enough movies. Go see it. If you like it, fine, if you don't, go buy the series on tape and GGLS on DVD and shut the hell up about it.
Remember that the next time someone looks down their nose at you for being an American. *eye roll*
I'll guess: Senator Disney?
Car manufacturers are researching ways to make cars drive more efficiently (increasing the likelihood of long-term rampant roadkilling sprees) and increase their top speed (maximizing the damage done when one of these murderous machines hits its target).
Did I mention that car ownership is on the rise? Did I ALSO mention that selling cars is a huge industry? I see conspiracies everywhere, trying to promote the pro-car lobbies!
Something must be done. Write your political representatives and notify them that -- along with this newfangled "nanotechnology" thing -- you want the car lobby stopped.
Further, anybody notice that -- depending on your view of things -- there's really only maybe fifteen "plots" at all?
I hadn't noticed the parallel between Syphon and MGS, but it's an interesting point.
Soccer players will get mechanical legs, internal communication devices, pain filters and oxygen-producing nanomachines in their bloodstream. So what if the robot doesn't get tired or feel pain -- neither will the humans, and they'll effectively be telepathic as well.