Re:First "Underway on nuclear power" post.
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If you're intelligent enough to be that far above the process, you're certainly intelligent enough to have done your research before volunteering for submarine duty, no? And once there, honorable enough to have honored your commitment to serve and aware enough to realize that lots of it is bullshit (as in life darned near anywhere), and to just deal?
As long as it's only coners that are port and stbd...
True, it's important to take enough nukes for three section--that engine room bilge gets awfully dirty. Anyway, aren't there some high chlorides somewhere you should be attending to? I'll be in my rack if anything important happens.
That's good--it means my planned Sunday Morning Slack Hour services with inspirational music from various contemporary artists won't be affected by this legislation.
are going to be used by governments and corporations to eliminate the anonymity and untaxability associated with cash, not to duplicate it. In the wet dream of taxing entities, the $20 you pay the babysitter for watching your child on Friday night out at the movies will have income taxes taken off the top. (If the teenager doesn't happen to make enough to owe, s/he can file for a refund.)
Governments would love to tax these small, currently impractical to keep "on the books" transactions. What they will call digital cash will in reality be an EFT system in which every transaction is rigorously tracked, and will eventually supplant currency, making it impossible to opt out, save for barter.
They're storing a program on my machine (carrying the camera), and using my CPU cycles and bandwidth to report back to them. I have no problem with them tracking whatever they can without executing code on my machine, such as via cookies (if I accept them) or by IP address. But running a Java client to watch me is crossing the line.
Carrying your analogy completely through, the store also has the right to make me pay for the film and to carry the camera. And therein lies the problem.
Hmm--wonder if I could get Tony DiStefano to sign one...
disto@delphi.com worked, at least as of about a year ago--I bought a copy of "Turn of the Screw" (the book with a bunch of his Rainbow articles) and plans for his 512K upgrade. He was very personable. Not that I've had time to do any hardware hacking--posting here is a demanding occupation:).
for the Color Computer would be perfect for something like that. However, I understand the publisher (Lonnie Falk) has withheld permission for similar efforts out of greed (which is technically his right).
Apparently the magazines don't have enough market value to be successfully sold, but have enough that the publisher that has already made his money isn't willing to give back to the community because he sees $$$ signs.
True enough on rationality. I have a PayPal account, but I've never given them a checking account that contains a significant amount of money, and never kept any money in it. It seems PayPal is a necessary evil, but that we can mitigate our risk by not trusting them with other than a "chump" checking account and not leaving money in the account for any longer than it takes to transfer and withdraw it.
I expect that being regulated as a bank will be PayPal's undoing. Certainly they're a bank by the "duck test."
It makes me wonder if the government is going to get especially upset with ebay/paypal now they they have found a way to virtually collect a sales tax on the internet.
Considering that governments don't seem particularly upset that credit card merchant fees effectively act as a tax on most face to face retail transactions, I doubt that particular fact of PayPal will cause them any ire.
Precisely. Rather than supporting Iraq to get back at the Ayatollah, we should have simply nuked Tehran the minute the hostages were out of Iranian airspace and out of range of the bomb. Now we know.
The point he was making is that we used to warn our citizens about the secret police in what we called an oppressive regime. Now we're the oppressive regime.
Easier said than done. Spammers, and those who operate questionable web sites, often operate through a multitude of shell companies and false entities. Check out NANAE for some of the sluething that has taken place to find the most notorious offenders in the email realm. I imagine those cloaking, etc., are just as "clever."
Perhaps his talent is in a higher order of magnitude than your own, and he thus can seriously contemplate a project that for you would be on the order of that popsicle stick bridge. Just a thought.
would be even better. A secret, underground network of 9600 baud modems exchanging messages and files via uucp and FidoNet. With military grade encryption, of course.
I always thought AOL's success was more tied to its first-mover advantage, having started way back in the day as PeopleLink with Commodore 64 and Apple ][ clients. Of course, it could be from flooding the world with free coasters, too.
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If you're intelligent enough to be that far above the process, you're certainly intelligent enough to have done your research before volunteering for submarine duty, no? And once there, honorable enough to have honored your commitment to serve and aware enough to realize that lots of it is bullshit (as in life darned near anywhere), and to just deal?
True, it's important to take enough nukes for three section--that engine room bilge gets awfully dirty. Anyway, aren't there some high chlorides somewhere you should be attending to? I'll be in my rack if anything important happens.
You can enjoy that room while you're standing port and starboard!
That's good--it means my planned Sunday Morning Slack Hour services with inspirational music from various contemporary artists won't be affected by this legislation.
Governments would love to tax these small, currently impractical to keep "on the books" transactions. What they will call digital cash will in reality be an EFT system in which every transaction is rigorously tracked, and will eventually supplant currency, making it impossible to opt out, save for barter.
They're storing a program on my machine (carrying the camera), and using my CPU cycles and bandwidth to report back to them. I have no problem with them tracking whatever they can without executing code on my machine, such as via cookies (if I accept them) or by IP address. But running a Java client to watch me is crossing the line.
Carrying your analogy completely through, the store also has the right to make me pay for the film and to carry the camera. And therein lies the problem.
Will this bug be fixed in a later release?
disto@delphi.com worked, at least as of about a year ago--I bought a copy of "Turn of the Screw" (the book with a bunch of his Rainbow articles) and plans for his 512K upgrade. He was very personable. Not that I've had time to do any hardware hacking--posting here is a demanding occupation :).
Apparently the magazines don't have enough market value to be successfully sold, but have enough that the publisher that has already made his money isn't willing to give back to the community because he sees $$$ signs.
C'est la vie--I've got my paper ones.
I expect that being regulated as a bank will be PayPal's undoing. Certainly they're a bank by the "duck test."
Considering that governments don't seem particularly upset that credit card merchant fees effectively act as a tax on most face to face retail transactions, I doubt that particular fact of PayPal will cause them any ire.
And how does the artist get paid when I buy a used record? Should that be illegal?
Precisely. Rather than supporting Iraq to get back at the Ayatollah, we should have simply nuked Tehran the minute the hostages were out of Iranian airspace and out of range of the bomb. Now we know.
"ontological hiatus"--I hope you don't mind if I steal that.
That you didn't get modded up for that is truly a travesty. Can you do anything with Edelweiss?
here--I don't necessarily see that as a bad thing.
I was thinking weasel. Someone should do a parody cover. I've always liked this one.
The point he was making is that we used to warn our citizens about the secret police in what we called an oppressive regime. Now we're the oppressive regime.
Easier said than done. Spammers, and those who operate questionable web sites, often operate through a multitude of shell companies and false entities. Check out NANAE for some of the sluething that has taken place to find the most notorious offenders in the email realm. I imagine those cloaking, etc., are just as "clever."
And only for those libraries that don't require a library card and a written log for use of the machines, as is done in my locale.
Perhaps his talent is in a higher order of magnitude than your own, and he thus can seriously contemplate a project that for you would be on the order of that popsicle stick bridge. Just a thought.
would be even better. A secret, underground network of 9600 baud modems exchanging messages and files via uucp and FidoNet. With military grade encryption, of course.
. . . is a reply to the last post now the last post, or does the previously last poster still claim last post?
I always thought AOL's success was more tied to its first-mover advantage, having started way back in the day as PeopleLink with Commodore 64 and Apple ][ clients. Of course, it could be from flooding the world with free coasters, too.