Ah yes - what we used to call the 'Tonic Bomb'. My first encounter with it was quite by accident - I used to make orange soda by putting a few cc of dry ice into a 2 liter bottle of OJ. I was eight years old, and fortunately my dad had the foresight to tell me, "You'd better do that outside." BOOM!!! with a CO2 vapor cloud that took a while to dissipate on that hot humid midwest summer evening.
Harmless? Hardly. It was a gateway bomb. A few years later (8th grade chemistry) I figured out that the oxy-acetylene tanks in our garage had a use far greater than fueling a cutting torch. Punching bag balloons with a real punch. Got in trouble for those. Probably because I set them off behind the police station.
Fortunately this happened in the 1980's, so I was not labelled a terrorist, and merely had to go to juvi court and promise to not do it again. And I didn't. Until I was an undergrad with unlimited access to whatever raw materials I wanted.
Bombs made as an undergrad, and since, have been bigger and better. But most importantly, safer. Today the thought of five cubic feet of primary explosive (72% O2 + 28% C2H2) in a balloon frightens me.
Some people are going to want to blow shit up. Many of these people will actually attempt it. Teach them how to do it safely.
I've been moving around quite a bit for the past five years - I teach internationally and live on what I can fit in two checked bags and a carry-on. And this includes a bicycle.
I've managed to shed nearly all of my tech equipment that's not currently in use - I'm down to laptop, monitor and a small gym bag of cables, media, and crap.
However, when measured digitally, I've become quite the hoarder, with about 10 TB of crap split between my four 2.5" external HD's (Now in 1TB!), and a video server I run for an old roommate.
At one point (2006) I had about four years of 'The Daily Show' in my collection.
Until 2008 I never deleted an email, and then, only spam.
At about the same time I stopped saving / archiving everything downloaded into my browser downloads folder.
Not to mention every application / utility installer file dating back to 1988. Apple's switch to Intel chips finally allowed me to delete those archives.
I know that there are many out there who are much worse.
But using the typical metric of 'hoarder', I'm hardly a blip.
... is about as likely to be won by the content holders as the 'War on Drugs' to be won by the Federal Govt.
The parallels are striking, starting with 'Just say no' / 'Don't copy that floppy', and then escalating internationally to ACTA.
As long as the demand for unauthorized content exists, supply will find its way.
Until consumers have a compelling reason to buy an authorized copy (iTunes is a great example of this), torrents or some other tech like.nzb will give the people what they want.
I'm curious how the publicly traded stocks of the early adopters fared from time of registration until the peak of the dotcom bubble in March 2000. I suspect abnormally high returns relative to Nasdaq or the S&P500.
I'm curious whether or not Apple is maintaining a parallel dev. of OSX for this line of IBM chips the same way that the Intel version of OSX was lurking in the dark from 2000 until 2006.
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Ah yes - what we used to call the 'Tonic Bomb'. My first encounter with it was quite by accident - I used to make orange soda by putting a few cc of dry ice into a 2 liter bottle of OJ. I was eight years old, and fortunately my dad had the foresight to tell me, "You'd better do that outside." BOOM!!! with a CO2 vapor cloud that took a while to dissipate on that hot humid midwest summer evening.
Harmless? Hardly. It was a gateway bomb. A few years later (8th grade chemistry) I figured out that the oxy-acetylene tanks in our garage had a use far greater than fueling a cutting torch. Punching bag balloons with a real punch. Got in trouble for those. Probably because I set them off behind the police station.
Fortunately this happened in the 1980's, so I was not labelled a terrorist, and merely had to go to juvi court and promise to not do it again. And I didn't. Until I was an undergrad with unlimited access to whatever raw materials I wanted.
Bombs made as an undergrad, and since, have been bigger and better. But most importantly, safer. Today the thought of five cubic feet of primary explosive (72% O2 + 28% C2H2) in a balloon frightens me.
Some people are going to want to blow shit up. Many of these people will actually attempt it. Teach them how to do it safely.
When she first arrived in Bangkok, she was a man.
What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
That huge gaping hole that swallowed your neighbor? That's not a geological bug, it's a 'feature'.
What's to stop someone from having multiple eBay / PayPal accounts? Will keeping each of them under $20k or 200 transactions prevent reporting?
Also, how the hell is Craigslist supposed to do accounting for anonymous ads?
Pretty sure that this would be considered a 'Junk Shot'
How can this be mod'ed as a troll? Seriously. Is there a moderator out there that _doesn't_ think that most TV sucks big sweaty donkey balls?
And if so, I'd like to lock him overnight in a storage container with one of those smug 'Well actually, I don't even own a TV' fuckers.
Thought for sure that in the last episode they would find Gilligan.
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I RTFA, and I still wonder what, if anything, changes with this tech.
Short of some draconian player mandate, how could this possibly matter?
You can pry my NZB sourced mkv playing laptop from my cold dead hands.
Umm. Crap.
I've got nothing.
I've been moving around quite a bit for the past five years - I teach internationally and live on what I can fit in two checked bags and a carry-on. And this includes a bicycle.
I've managed to shed nearly all of my tech equipment that's not currently in use - I'm down to laptop, monitor and a small gym bag of cables, media, and crap.
However, when measured digitally, I've become quite the hoarder, with about 10 TB of crap split between my four 2.5" external HD's (Now in 1TB!), and a video server I run for an old roommate.
At one point (2006) I had about four years of 'The Daily Show' in my collection.
Until 2008 I never deleted an email, and then, only spam.
At about the same time I stopped saving / archiving everything downloaded into my browser downloads folder.
Not to mention every application / utility installer file dating back to 1988. Apple's switch to Intel chips finally allowed me to delete those archives.
I know that there are many out there who are much worse.
But using the typical metric of 'hoarder', I'm hardly a blip.
If I have the girlfriend watch a ten minute slide show of really pregnant women she can stop taking the pill?
... is about as likely to be won by the content holders as the 'War on Drugs' to be won by the Federal Govt.
The parallels are striking, starting with 'Just say no' / 'Don't copy that floppy', and then escalating internationally to ACTA.
As long as the demand for unauthorized content exists, supply will find its way.
Until consumers have a compelling reason to buy an authorized copy (iTunes is a great example of this), torrents or some other tech like .nzb will give the people what they want.
Hmm. So I guess that instead of pins, stick your Firstenberg (plaintiff) voodoo doll in the microwave.
And yes, there have been cases of people being sued for practicing voodoo and placing curses on others.
... no one can hear you wank.
It's barely visible to the naked eye, but if you look under light magnification you can read a caption:
"I can has quantum state?"
... to the size of a cat.
I'm curious how the publicly traded stocks of the early adopters fared from time of registration until the peak of the dotcom bubble in March 2000. I suspect abnormally high returns relative to Nasdaq or the S&P500.
What would 3DRealms do if someone just went ahead and wrote / released an open source version of Duke Nukem Forever.
Or possibly the EeePad.
FTFA:
Will the pirate world be built with Mega Bloks?
Good to know that I might finally reach Zen nirvana, at least for a moment, as the zombies gnaw through my brain.
I'm curious whether or not Apple is maintaining a parallel dev. of OSX for this line of IBM chips the same way that the Intel version of OSX was lurking in the dark from 2000 until 2006.