You're a schmuck if you think these scientists are actually saying lets all go drive gas-guzzlers.
Now I've never hung out with these scientists and all ANY of us have read of them are their relatively dumbed down reports like this, but I'd assume most climatologists would fully support more hybrids, less polution, less smog, better health.
The only thing they're saying here, is the current warming trend, is most likely not the direct result of increased human CO2 emmissions. Period.
I went ahead and corrected your sentence for you. Believe it or not, there are actually people in the world who have different interests than you.
I care precisely squat about the PS3 as a console. I am interested in the HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray battle, and how the PS3 might sway the war one way or the other.
No, because there are many legal uses for bittorrent but few legal uses for hookers.
What if I was picking up a hooker because I needed a date for my office party, and had no expectations of sex? The cops going to give me a ticket.
If I had my one vicadin prescription bottle on me, I'd be fine. If i had all 100pills in individual ziplock baggies... I'm gonna get arrested.
Look I'm not here to debate you on the legality of bittorrents or the rules established in America or Sweden (what the f' do i know/care about Sweden) [no offense to the Swedish, keep spitting out the great hockey players]. And while even my analogy went a bit to the extreme, all I was pointing out was that comparing a site that, in short, points out where some copyrighted files can be found, is much much different than a company that sells paper...
This is basically the same as American cops raiding Bell because the Yellow Pages lists the phone number of a paper mill, and paper can potentially be used to write harassing letters.
I think a better analogy would be cops raiding a house because the guy was distributing directions on where to buy [drugs,hookers,whatevers illegal].
In other news my dealer told me he was "less than satisfied" with the latest shipment of weed he got. He promised that next week's will be "much more dank". And if i could just bare with him during these difficult times, he would "take care of me" when the good stuff arrives.
"... accept the premise that privacy is about hiding a wrong. It's not. Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect."
I'm going to have to disagree with Bruce there. Say I'm a witness/participant in a robbery. It goes too far, I feel bad and call the police to let them know where they can find the injured person. Do i have the right to anonymity in that situation? I don't think so. We've come too far in terms of data and knowledge; networks and communication to make these assumptions anymore.
Back in the day, when humans wrote notes by candlelight, you could pretty much assume privacy except for anyone who came into contact (and read) that note. Nowadays your voice is zipping over countless companies' networks, over state and national borders... times have changed.
At the same time I'm not saying the government has the right to tape everything you say... I just disagree with the statement that privacy is a right nowadays.
Unfortunately you're confusing freedom with privacy.
I'm honestly not trying to take sides either way here, though I'm sure some of the posters here will immediately label me a Christian in some strange stereotype mixing politics and religions, but here it is.
You have a right to say hateful and racist things as long as you're not slandering someone or assaulting them.
You have no such right that you'll remain anonymous as the speaker of those words.
Of course you can make assumptions on, well I'm speaking in my home I'm granted an innate amount of privacy. Or the sounds of my marital sex won't be posted to the internet in some form. But as words and ideas blend into one concept of data, which can be transmitted via numerous different ways to numerous different people, the rules of where to assume privacy have to change.
Very broad example: As recent as what, 10-15 years ago, you could have sex ontop of a car with a realistic expectation of privacy. At worst maybe a few passersby see you.
Nowadays with security cameras on the corners of lots of buildings and cities themselves installing them, can you make that same assumption? And at the same time, you're not losing and freedom; you can still have sex there.
Ehh, as i said it was a rough example, but take what you can. My whole point is that its not simply an open and shut case, times have changed, expectations will have to as well.
And your point of the woman's underwear, in terms of my own privacy (and this may be a personal thing), i make a comparison to a tree falling in the woods. If some Johnny in Madison Wisconsin finds out a guy named Gray Calx wears women's underwear... does it matter? Not to justify, not at all, but to me, who cares, i have bigger things to worry about.
If both ReplayTV and TiVo came out around the same time, how does the court know that Echostar is infringing on TiVo's patent and not ReplayTV? I didn't read the lawsuit so I don't know the specifics I just find it a little suspect. As others said what about MythTV, or Windows Media Center, some time-shifting applications are built into TVs now. I guess TiVo's solution was to pick out the juiciest one, sink in its teeth and hope for free money.
/That being said, I'm a big fan of Dish, and see no reason to fork additional money over to TiVo, when Dish's DVR works just as well. So, yeah, balance that into what I've said.
Really, politics aside, all I hear about lately is Global Warming. Ever since Gore had his big push when The Day After Tomorrow came out, it seems like its all i ever hear anymore. Time and Newsweek just gave Global Warming their covers recently... I just don't see how theres information out there that isn't getting to me. At least information i could understand, I don't need up to the minute global-current charts.
Ha! Thats like making an argument that Dumbledore and Gandalf aren't the same wizard. 'Course they aren't, but you'll be hard pressed to find proof of either one.
Maybe I'm missing something but how do they intend to get the cable/ribbon into space in the first place? Have it trailing out of a rocket that they shoot up and hopefully it will withstand the heat? Or are they launching it up in a coil and then lower it back down to Earth?
Wow... I'm shocked, dumbfounded, or perhaps just sarcastic.
Someone changing Wiki entries for their own purposes? Who'd have thunk it?
Lets be honest. The republicans have done it, the democrats have done it. The lobbiests have done it. Cigarette companies have done it. And I'm sure slashdotters have added "M$" to a couple of pages.
I guess Microsoft thinks having many eyes on the source won't work as well as it does for the open source projects...
Heh, right. Some cracker/hacker gets ahold of the MS source code, the first thing he does is :
1. Begin parsing the application for security holes, immediately plugging them when possible, adds an anti-virus kernel to it, and sends it back to Microsoft with a box of chocolates.
OR
2. Inserts an animated gif of Clippy performing some autoerotic asphyxiation.
Unless one's thesis is on the Wikipedia, anyone depending oslely on Wikipedia for research needs a reality slap.
I don't think it's really fair for you to say something like this unless you live in China and get along fine with the suppression of websites.
That has nothing to do with what the OP was saying. All he's talking about is the Chinese user who complained "How am I going to finish my thesis now?" As the OP said, if he's depending solely on Wikipedia to write his thesis, unless its specifically on Wikipedia, he needs to learn how to research.
Not saying anything on the wrongness or correctness of what China is doing.
I'm not sure if we'll be able to pinpoint when a Singularity occured, if one ever does. It may be more of a case of in hindsight we can recognize a single point in time that started it all, but at the time of occurance we may not be able to realize whats truly happening. The thing about The Singularity is that the result of it will be so... overwhelming, if not catastrohphic, we will definitely be aware of one when its happened.
For example for those not familiar. Picture a time when nanotechnology as developed to the point of being able to replicate anything (extreme i know but we are talking sci-fi here). Imagine with this replicator anything can be made: books, tvs, cars, jets, tanks, nuclear weapons, money... at that point whats the value of money? These machines could replicate themselves and everyone would have a replicator. Everyone has everything... material things then become worthless. Class structure collapses in on itself as everyone is on a level plain. What becomes valuable? Information... bandwidth... trust? Society as we know it now will collapse and crumble. In my opinion, it will not be a pleasant time.
I'm kind of describing an economic singularity one that Stross wrote of in Singularity Sky. Although the technology as a result from such a thing would be tremendous, I'm not sure a society can deal with such a drastic change all at once.
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Wow, you worked Christianity into a Global Warming discussion. Bravo sir... bravo.
Though, I am disappointed that you failed to mention Nazism, Enron, and America's obesity problem... flame score : 3
Ouch, better luck next time.
You're a schmuck if you think these scientists are actually saying lets all go drive gas-guzzlers.
Now I've never hung out with these scientists and all ANY of us have read of them are their relatively dumbed down reports like this, but I'd assume most climatologists would fully support more hybrids, less polution, less smog, better health.
The only thing they're saying here, is the current warming trend, is most likely not the direct result of increased human CO2 emmissions. Period.
So according to this statement then you're fully behind spending billions of dollars on some sort of Near Earth Asteroid deflection system?
Not to say I'm against it, I just want to make sure we're all on the same page here.
All [you] want to know about is the game system.
I went ahead and corrected your sentence for you. Believe it or not, there are actually people in the world who have different interests than you.
I care precisely squat about the PS3 as a console. I am interested in the HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray battle, and how the PS3 might sway the war one way or the other.
No, because there are many legal uses for bittorrent but few legal uses for hookers.
What if I was picking up a hooker because I needed a date for my office party, and had no expectations of sex? The cops going to give me a ticket.
If I had my one vicadin prescription bottle on me, I'd be fine. If i had all 100pills in individual ziplock baggies... I'm gonna get arrested.
Look I'm not here to debate you on the legality of bittorrents or the rules established in America or Sweden (what the f' do i know/care about Sweden) [no offense to the Swedish, keep spitting out the great hockey players]. And while even my analogy went a bit to the extreme, all I was pointing out was that comparing a site that, in short, points out where some copyrighted files can be found, is much much different than a company that sells paper...
This is basically the same as American cops raiding Bell because the Yellow Pages lists the phone number of a paper mill, and paper can potentially be used to write harassing letters.
I think a better analogy would be cops raiding a house because the guy was distributing directions on where to buy [drugs,hookers,whatevers illegal].
In other news my dealer told me he was "less than satisfied" with the latest shipment of weed he got. He promised that next week's will be "much more dank". And if i could just bare with him during these difficult times, he would "take care of me" when the good stuff arrives.
I completely disagree with you.
Ask a celebrity about their rights to privacy, then get back to me on how free they are.
"... accept the premise that privacy is about hiding a wrong. It's not. Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect."
I'm going to have to disagree with Bruce there. Say I'm a witness/participant in a robbery. It goes too far, I feel bad and call the police to let them know where they can find the injured person. Do i have the right to anonymity in that situation? I don't think so. We've come too far in terms of data and knowledge; networks and communication to make these assumptions anymore.
Back in the day, when humans wrote notes by candlelight, you could pretty much assume privacy except for anyone who came into contact (and read) that note. Nowadays your voice is zipping over countless companies' networks, over state and national borders... times have changed.
At the same time I'm not saying the government has the right to tape everything you say... I just disagree with the statement that privacy is a right nowadays.
Unfortunately you're confusing freedom with privacy.
I'm honestly not trying to take sides either way here, though I'm sure some of the posters here will immediately label me a Christian in some strange stereotype mixing politics and religions, but here it is.
You have a right to say hateful and racist things as long as you're not slandering someone or assaulting them.
You have no such right that you'll remain anonymous as the speaker of those words.
Of course you can make assumptions on, well I'm speaking in my home I'm granted an innate amount of privacy. Or the sounds of my marital sex won't be posted to the internet in some form. But as words and ideas blend into one concept of data, which can be transmitted via numerous different ways to numerous different people, the rules of where to assume privacy have to change.
Very broad example: As recent as what, 10-15 years ago, you could have sex ontop of a car with a realistic expectation of privacy. At worst maybe a few passersby see you.
Nowadays with security cameras on the corners of lots of buildings and cities themselves installing them, can you make that same assumption? And at the same time, you're not losing and freedom; you can still have sex there.
Ehh, as i said it was a rough example, but take what you can. My whole point is that its not simply an open and shut case, times have changed, expectations will have to as well.
And your point of the woman's underwear, in terms of my own privacy (and this may be a personal thing), i make a comparison to a tree falling in the woods. If some Johnny in Madison Wisconsin finds out a guy named Gray Calx wears women's underwear... does it matter? Not to justify, not at all, but to me, who cares, i have bigger things to worry about.
If both ReplayTV and TiVo came out around the same time, how does the court know that Echostar is infringing on TiVo's patent and not ReplayTV? I didn't read the lawsuit so I don't know the specifics I just find it a little suspect. As others said what about MythTV, or Windows Media Center, some time-shifting applications are built into TVs now. I guess TiVo's solution was to pick out the juiciest one, sink in its teeth and hope for free money.
/That being said, I'm a big fan of Dish, and see no reason to fork additional money over to TiVo, when Dish's DVR works just as well. So, yeah, balance that into what I've said.
Really, politics aside, all I hear about lately is Global Warming. Ever since Gore had his big push when The Day After Tomorrow came out, it seems like its all i ever hear anymore. Time and Newsweek just gave Global Warming their covers recently... I just don't see how theres information out there that isn't getting to me. At least information i could understand, I don't need up to the minute global-current charts.
I would prefer to use my monitor with the lights off but some bastard keeps on turning on the sun.
You would've gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those pesky God and Jesus characters.
- Izzard
images so realistic you won't be sure your wall's not on fire.
Hehehe, is it on fire or is it Philips?
Hey, whadda ya know, its both.
what were they going to sell? The letters "3" "S" and "P" printed on little cards?
Ahhh, thats their delay problem right there... they printed the name backwards.
The only time I've heard "The PC is dead," is from console fanboys. The only time I've heard "The console is dead," is from PC fanboys.
And my Grandpa considers the Internet to be a fad, so who knows.
Did someone call me?
Too bad, you probably could've deducted the interest.
Ha! Thats like making an argument that Dumbledore and Gandalf aren't the same wizard. 'Course they aren't, but you'll be hard pressed to find proof of either one.
Same or different its all make believe.
Maybe I'm missing something but how do they intend to get the cable/ribbon into space in the first place? Have it trailing out of a rocket that they shoot up and hopefully it will withstand the heat? Or are they launching it up in a coil and then lower it back down to Earth?
Wow... I'm shocked, dumbfounded, or perhaps just sarcastic.
Someone changing Wiki entries for their own purposes? Who'd have thunk it?
Lets be honest. The republicans have done it, the democrats have done it. The lobbiests have done it. Cigarette companies have done it. And I'm sure slashdotters have added "M$" to a couple of pages.
I guess Microsoft thinks having many eyes on the source won't work as well as it does for the open source projects...
Heh, right. Some cracker/hacker gets ahold of the MS source code, the first thing he does is :
1. Begin parsing the application for security holes, immediately plugging them when possible, adds an anti-virus kernel to it, and sends it back to Microsoft with a box of chocolates.
OR
2. Inserts an animated gif of Clippy performing some autoerotic asphyxiation.
Unless one's thesis is on the Wikipedia, anyone depending oslely on Wikipedia for research needs a reality slap.
I don't think it's really fair for you to say something like this unless you live in China and get along fine with the suppression of websites.
That has nothing to do with what the OP was saying. All he's talking about is the Chinese user who complained "How am I going to finish my thesis now?" As the OP said, if he's depending solely on Wikipedia to write his thesis, unless its specifically on Wikipedia, he needs to learn how to research.
Not saying anything on the wrongness or correctness of what China is doing.
The same way you can hear planes that travel faster than the speed of sound.
With your ears?
I'm not sure if we'll be able to pinpoint when a Singularity occured, if one ever does. It may be more of a case of in hindsight we can recognize a single point in time that started it all, but at the time of occurance we may not be able to realize whats truly happening. The thing about The Singularity is that the result of it will be so... overwhelming, if not catastrohphic, we will definitely be aware of one when its happened.
For example for those not familiar. Picture a time when nanotechnology as developed to the point of being able to replicate anything (extreme i know but we are talking sci-fi here). Imagine with this replicator anything can be made: books, tvs, cars, jets, tanks, nuclear weapons, money... at that point whats the value of money? These machines could replicate themselves and everyone would have a replicator. Everyone has everything... material things then become worthless. Class structure collapses in on itself as everyone is on a level plain. What becomes valuable? Information... bandwidth... trust? Society as we know it now will collapse and crumble. In my opinion, it will not be a pleasant time.
I'm kind of describing an economic singularity one that Stross wrote of in Singularity Sky. Although the technology as a result from such a thing would be tremendous, I'm not sure a society can deal with such a drastic change all at once.