According to the Radio Lab show After Life the Vatican decides on your dead/alive status based on your heartbeat, so I guess there's a new papal decree in the worksâ¦
Will a child born by a pulseless woman be human or considered an ex utero demon spawn?
I went herbivore eight years ago mostly for health and ecological reasons; These days it's a ethical one.
If vat meat (veat? can we coin that now?) would be available it wouldn't be objectionable to my vegan sensitivities; There's already vat grown schrooms fungus - Quorn - which is a popular (non-vegan) meat substitute, so as long as it's labeled 'veat' instead of 'slab of mutated beef' it might go over.
Skimming the Quorn page, it seems that it took ten years of trials before it was deemed fit for human consumption, so PETA better be patient.
i have SmtpSelect 0.1.1 installed with thunderbird 1.5.0.10. works like a charm. gives you the option to click-select smtp server for individual emails.
just thought i'd give a liberal socialist/anarchist take on this, seeing as i'd like to consider myself cut from that cloth (english not being my first language, do excuse my attempts at flair).
the old kropotkin quote does apply: "to each according to need, from each accoriding to ability". of course, in 19th century tsarist russia you often had a limited group of people to interact with and it's easier to imagine one who has great needs getting his ear clipped by someone who doesn't agree with the limitations of said persons "ability". it's a social leveller that is missing when it comes to all things interwub, and in its place are personal morals and cost/benefit analysys of the risk of getting caught by **AA or whatnot.
i'm in no way downplaying personal morals, ultimately i believe in the right of every individual acting on the basis of them, but they will not be enough to "stop piracy" simply because what most people would say they need is in no way proportional to what they have the ability to exchange for it, not to mention what others demand for it. the sticking point is of course how people justify "need". the secondary point is how well people actually adhere to the morals they profess to.
it's almost pointless to use oneself as an example (you can't extrapolate information on group behaviour from a group of one), but since this issue revolves around personal morals and ones adherens to them (imho), i'll use myself as an example and try to justify my behaviour:
i have a subscription at emusic, occasionaly buy cds off of local/unsigned/indy bands that i see at a concert and once in a blue moon i buy music from a band homepage (the 'blue moon' part is cause many of the bands i like offer wma or don't cater to mac users). i try to use freeware software or stay within shareware limitations; i try to buy apps that i use commercially but that almost never happens since i have very little use for them. occasionaly i use cracked versions of software if the functionality is too severely limited in the demo/nag version. i honestly can't recall any cracked app that i'm using today; last app i was actively using was propellerheads reason, but that was two years ago, hot on the heals of when i borrowed a midi-keyboard from a friend of mine.
this isn't to say that i don't download pirated versions of apps just to stay on top of things, just that i don't feel morally obliged to pay for them just for novelties sake. if i use it a lot, be it commercially or just for fun i try to make good and pay.
same with movies or tv shows; i had high rez versions of "invader zim" downloaded a good year before i had the opportunity to go to new york where i bought the dvds (and not for any 'added value' mind you, since the commentator tracks blew donkey and the behind-the-stage footage gave the donkey a rimjob); same with babylon 5, same with farscape, same with the cris cunningham compilation.
i also download shitloads of other stuff. like, a neurotic amount of stuff. i probably have a manual on how to program milling machinery from the 70s using PASCAL on one of the countless dvds that obscure the line of sight to my wall, desk and floor.
before the interwubs with all the irc/hotline/kdx/dc/bt and whatnots i used to go to the local library once a week and take out anywhere between ten and twenty books on anything that caught my fancy. i'd read one or two of them, browse the rest, return and repeat. the comparatively generous library system of sweden allowed me to do this, and libraries act on exactly the notion that there's no chance in hell you could affort to buy, or be able to loan privately, all the books you'd like to read.
yes, there's a remuneration going out to the authors of the books that are being loaned, but the basic ethical reasoning behind a library is that you shouldn't be limited by your income or personal network when it comes to information access. the analogy isn't spot on because there isn't a good micropay
i'm getting on average 40-60 spams a day; they get caught in the 'challenge response' thingy i use (yes, i know it's not a good way to handle spam. anyway), but i still check it for any un-approved email from people who don't bother with the 'challenge', and for the first time in some time there was a significant drop in the amount of spams - down to 10-25 a day - which coincided with the ddos screensaver.
"By entering the BSA competition for naming the ferret ("the competition"), you wave all rights and claims to the submission and consent to your submission being used by BSA in whatever manner BSA deems appropriate, until the end of time."
may i counter with the exact opposite advise i received from my aikido sensei?
anectode: he was working in some shoddy downtown place in a rehab place for poor. on his way there a guy whips out a knife and demands his money. he gives what little money he carries in his pocket, explaining that they are likely to run into each other often since he's working at the clinic near-by,.
couple of days later a group of people try to mug him again, one of whom was the first guy - when the original mugger recognized sensei he got the others to back down.
moral of the story: snap the fuck out of your ego.
of course, this approach doesn't work if your goal is to retain your money at all costs, but it will keep you out of a conflict. and contrary to parent poster, i would say that the spirit of aikido isn't about winning a conflict but resolving it. let in dissolve.
my sensei was no naive person and had injured people when he thought there was no other option, and would kill in self-defence; but he would not confuse his ego with his morals. those who have trained long (imho) seem to become more ego-less than novices, and without an ego you're bound to loose money when mugged, but wont have to feel guilt about having maimed/killed someone over your wallet, nor becoming maimed/killed yourself.
it's probably not the fist one i downloaded, but 'tis the first i remember. i was using hotline to download software, eh, shareware & freeware software, and found some jello biafra spoken word files on a server. oh joy!
just like with any entry-level drug, i have since moved on to chomsky, zinn, parenti & malcom x, but jello still resides in a secret chamber of my heart.
on a side note, i've moved from using to pushing, and run a dedicated anarchist kdx server [tiny socialist server], so that others might follow the path of rightiousness and good clean fun that is anarchy. who said mp3's aren't good for society?
actually, i bought a book called Quantum mechanics for beginners. lots and lots of illustrations, but i just couldn't get past one third of it.
i asked a friend of mine who is actually doing his doctors thesis on QM, and he didn't think so highly of it; not cause it was a 'for beginners' book, but cause it overly complicated issues, and brought up subjects which were only confusing.
when i worked apple support i used to go to these tedious rallies for retailers and support-staff, and my boss once told me "this year was boring, back in the days, they dragged up a bunch of wintel boxes and smashed them with a sledgehammer".
all i got out of those shows were crappy tacos. oh, and a big teeshirt.
yes, now is the time to start hoping for a prequel!
and of course the hobbit would make an excellent prequel, but i doubt you could stretch that book into three movies.
maybe if you incorporate parallell stories, stuff from sillmarillion, some stories about tom bombadill, the ents search for entessess - i'd be like a full feature discovery channel guide to middleearth.
and i so want to see a good, nice, dwarf-eating dragon!
i saw "reign of fire" just cause i like dragons, fer crissake.
maybe SCO knows how much a court test of the GPL means to the Linux community, and has decided to let itself be ripped apart in court so as to validate the GPL and scare off future violators of open source licenses!
don't you see? they're martyring themselves for the great good of us all! and althought they in a weak moment might shout "oh Linus, why hast thou abandoned me?", they shall be remembered as having spilled their lawyer blood for the embetterment of the world!
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15000 stories, huh? Could you put that in LoC?
According to the Radio Lab show After Life the Vatican decides on your dead/alive status based on your heartbeat, so I guess there's a new papal decree in the works⦠Will a child born by a pulseless woman be human or considered an ex utero demon spawn?
I went herbivore eight years ago mostly for health and ecological reasons; These days it's a ethical one.
If vat meat (veat? can we coin that now?) would be available it wouldn't be objectionable to my vegan sensitivities; There's already vat grown schrooms fungus - Quorn - which is a popular (non-vegan) meat substitute, so as long as it's labeled 'veat' instead of 'slab of mutated beef' it might go over.
Skimming the Quorn page, it seems that it took ten years of trials before it was deemed fit for human consumption, so PETA better be patient.
Atwoods book Oryx and Crake briefly handles the topic.
CowboyNeal never puts out, darn it!
i have SmtpSelect 0.1.1 installed with thunderbird 1.5.0.10. works like a charm. gives you the option to click-select smtp server for individual emails.
I was really impressed with the creatures' behaviour in black & white - both in doing what you did, and do what you say (sort of).
howdy.
just thought i'd give a liberal socialist/anarchist take on this, seeing as i'd like to consider myself cut from that cloth (english not being my first language, do excuse my attempts at flair).
the old kropotkin quote does apply: "to each according to need, from each accoriding to ability". of course, in 19th century tsarist russia you often had a limited group of people to interact with and it's easier to imagine one who has great needs getting his ear clipped by someone who doesn't agree with the limitations of said persons "ability". it's a social leveller that is missing when it comes to all things interwub, and in its place are personal morals and cost/benefit analysys of the risk of getting caught by **AA or whatnot.
i'm in no way downplaying personal morals, ultimately i believe in the right of every individual acting on the basis of them, but they will not be enough to "stop piracy" simply because what most people would say they need is in no way proportional to what they have the ability to exchange for it, not to mention what others demand for it. the sticking point is of course how people justify "need". the secondary point is how well people actually adhere to the morals they profess to.
it's almost pointless to use oneself as an example (you can't extrapolate information on group behaviour from a group of one), but since this issue revolves around personal morals and ones adherens to them (imho), i'll use myself as an example and try to justify my behaviour:
i have a subscription at emusic, occasionaly buy cds off of local/unsigned/indy bands that i see at a concert and once in a blue moon i buy music from a band homepage (the 'blue moon' part is cause many of the bands i like offer wma or don't cater to mac users). i try to use freeware software or stay within shareware limitations; i try to buy apps that i use commercially but that almost never happens since i have very little use for them. occasionaly i use cracked versions of software if the functionality is too severely limited in the demo/nag version. i honestly can't recall any cracked app that i'm using today; last app i was actively using was propellerheads reason, but that was two years ago, hot on the heals of when i borrowed a midi-keyboard from a friend of mine.
this isn't to say that i don't download pirated versions of apps just to stay on top of things, just that i don't feel morally obliged to pay for them just for novelties sake. if i use it a lot, be it commercially or just for fun i try to make good and pay. same with movies or tv shows; i had high rez versions of "invader zim" downloaded a good year before i had the opportunity to go to new york where i bought the dvds (and not for any 'added value' mind you, since the commentator tracks blew donkey and the behind-the-stage footage gave the donkey a rimjob); same with babylon 5, same with farscape, same with the cris cunningham compilation.
i also download shitloads of other stuff. like, a neurotic amount of stuff. i probably have a manual on how to program milling machinery from the 70s using PASCAL on one of the countless dvds that obscure the line of sight to my wall, desk and floor.
before the interwubs with all the irc/hotline/kdx/dc/bt and whatnots i used to go to the local library once a week and take out anywhere between ten and twenty books on anything that caught my fancy. i'd read one or two of them, browse the rest, return and repeat. the comparatively generous library system of sweden allowed me to do this, and libraries act on exactly the notion that there's no chance in hell you could affort to buy, or be able to loan privately, all the books you'd like to read.
yes, there's a remuneration going out to the authors of the books that are being loaned, but the basic ethical reasoning behind a library is that you shouldn't be limited by your income or personal network when it comes to information access. the analogy isn't spot on because there isn't a good micropay
>The only difference is that we cannot comprehend them.
i don't get it.
i'm getting into the mac mini game myself: here's my product.
operators are standing by : f64
wow. i had no idea that sweden had such a problem!
please let me know what cities i should avoid; i live in sweden and would appreciate any information you have! ohmygod!
really really frightened now - f64
i'm getting on average 40-60 spams a day; they get caught in the 'challenge response' thingy i use (yes, i know it's not a good way to handle spam. anyway), but i still check it for any un-approved email from people who don't bother with the 'challenge', and for the first time in some time there was a significant drop in the amount of spams - down to 10-25 a day - which coincided with the ddos screensaver.
might be a coincidence, but anyway.
no we don't.
that'll teach them kids about copyright!
althought impressive with the blue light thingy, i'm more interested in how you are going to incorporate the ass variable into a mac.
or is that a diccerent project altogether?
i'm thinking of course of this picture: http://www.buckeyemonkey.com/images/ass.jpg
may i counter with the exact opposite advise i received from my aikido sensei?
anectode:
he was working in some shoddy downtown place in a rehab place for poor. on his way there a guy whips out a knife and demands his money. he gives what little money he carries in his pocket, explaining that they are likely to run into each other often since he's working at the clinic near-by,.
couple of days later a group of people try to mug him again, one of whom was the first guy - when the original mugger recognized sensei he got the others to back down.
moral of the story: snap the fuck out of your ego.
of course, this approach doesn't work if your goal is to retain your money at all costs, but it will keep you out of a conflict.
and contrary to parent poster, i would say that the spirit of aikido isn't about winning a conflict but resolving it. let in dissolve.
my sensei was no naive person and had injured people when he thought there was no other option, and would kill in self-defence; but he would not confuse his ego with his morals. those who have trained long (imho) seem to become more ego-less than novices, and without an ego you're bound to loose money when mugged, but wont have to feel guilt about having maimed/killed someone over your wallet, nor becoming maimed/killed yourself.
f64 : the seller of crystal meth since 1978
aaah! there's a face in the image!.
they have burned the ants on mars? what gives?
"my other car is enterprise"
"how's my warp trail?"
that's a start anyway : f64
>Now taking bets on how often gasoline ends up in the
>washer fuild or vice versa!
just thought i'd nitpick: the hole for the washer fluid is smaller, and judging from these images, it should't be hard to avoid mistakes. maybe.
f64 : top of the pot
it's probably not the fist one i downloaded, but 'tis the first i remember. i was using hotline to download software, eh, shareware & freeware software, and found some jello biafra spoken word files on a server. oh joy!
just like with any entry-level drug, i have since moved on to chomsky, zinn, parenti & malcom x, but jello still resides in a secret chamber of my heart.
on a side note, i've moved from using to pushing, and run a dedicated anarchist kdx server [tiny socialist server], so that others might follow the path of rightiousness and good clean fun that is anarchy. who said mp3's aren't good for society?
f64 : dishing out justice with two fists!
actually, i bought a book called Quantum mechanics for beginners. lots and lots of illustrations, but i just couldn't get past one third of it.
i asked a friend of mine who is actually doing his doctors thesis on QM, and he didn't think so highly of it; not cause it was a 'for beginners' book, but cause it overly complicated issues, and brought up subjects which were only confusing.
i took some comfort in that.
f64 : making rich excuses for being poor
so true.
when i worked apple support i used to go to these tedious rallies for retailers and support-staff, and my boss once told me "this year was boring, back in the days, they dragged up a bunch of wintel boxes and smashed them with a sledgehammer".
all i got out of those shows were crappy tacos. oh, and a big teeshirt.
f64 : fight for your right to be lazy!
so, you're saying what? that the scouring of shire isn't in the movie? am i getting it right? are you sure?
f64 : annoyance in absurdum
yes, now is the time to start hoping for a prequel!
and of course the hobbit would make an excellent prequel, but i doubt you could stretch that book into three movies.
maybe if you incorporate parallell stories, stuff from sillmarillion, some stories about tom bombadill, the ents search for entessess - i'd be like a full feature discovery channel guide to middleearth.
and i so want to see a good, nice, dwarf-eating dragon!
i saw "reign of fire" just cause i like dragons, fer crissake.
f64 : as seen on tv
hey!
maybe SCO knows how much a court test of the GPL means to the Linux community, and has decided to let itself be ripped apart in court so as to validate the GPL and scare off future violators of open source licenses!
don't you see? they're martyring themselves for the great good of us all! and althought they in a weak moment might shout "oh Linus, why hast thou abandoned me?", they shall be remembered as having spilled their lawyer blood for the embetterment of the world!
f64 : making toys out of poop
hear hear!
they couldn't even be bothered to actually mimic pre-teenspeak. lame.
f64 : brought up on crack, brought down by politics