Lets hope it looks better than that hideous mock up photo. My mum has a kitchen radio that looks similar to that.
Why can't Sony just build a playstation that looks like a nice sophisticated piece of stacking hi-fi instead of either something that looks like it escaped from toys-r-us (PS1 & 2) or looks like something Bauhaus would have in their living room (PS3) ?
"and no, hard work doesn't entitle you to get money"
Yes it does if you decide to sell your work instead of giving it away.
"even if you persist for years; and it most certainly doesn't entitle you to enforce rules designed to make you money on others."
What is this , Communism 101?
"Maybe you should consider getting a day job"
Got one thanks. How about you Mr Left Wing Student?
"Then you wouldn't have to try to control other people"
Nothing to do with controlling. If you want the work pay for it. Don't expect to get it for free if its not being given away free. And don't even start to bleat about your rights since you obviously have no idea what rights are.
"through government monopoly"
And which "government monopoly" would this be? Or are we heading off into conspiracy theory here?
"Oh the irony."
Hardly. You're a cookie cutter lefty and sadly typical of the type. Mind you , you probably didn't even think your post up - you probably just copied it.
Graffiti is done by underachieving teenagers and immature 20-somethings who generally can't spell, have no respect for other peoples property and have little or no talent artistic or otherwise anyway.
"and the false need of some people, to control that information."
What a load of reactionary BS. People control information for a number of reasons but copyright is there so the people who created the work - you know , the ones who spent months or years creating a piece of music or a book (surprise! They don't just magic themselves into existence!) - can earn some money from their efforts before ungrateful and clueless morons like you think you're entitled to it for free just because you can copy it easily.
Did I mention colour? You're so blinded by your own prejudices you can't see further than the spittle on your lips you sad man.
I don't care what colour someone is , its the cultures I have issue with. I have no problem with black british for example. But then people like me don't fit into your simplistic theories do we which really irritates you so you default to the standard mindless chanting of halfwit liberals everywhere "nazi, racist" etc etc.
"You remind me of the kid at school who would ask what relevance every single thing they were being taught would have in a work place."
If you're going to be patronising you might try and get the point first.
"You mean like the computer you wrote your post on?"
Funny you should mention that - Babbage was given government money specifically to build a machine to calculate log tables amongst other things that could be used by the navy. When he failed to produce funding was withdrawn. Electronic computers came about mainly due to the efforts against the nazis in WW2.
"The medicine that has roughly doubled life expectancy in the developed world in the past few hundred years or so?"
Big pharm spends money on drugs it'll get a return on. It doesn't do it just for the hell of it.
So thats 2 of your arguments shot out the water.
I have nothing against pure research , but there you can't just hand out a blank cheques otherwise you might as well just fund any old artist who promises that one day he might surpass Rembrant.
The medicine that has roughly doubled life expectancy in the developed world in the past few hundred years or so?
"the left/right political spectrum is a very poor analogy for the real world,"
Totally agree. But there is a certain group of people who hold certain social views who can be classed as liberal left.
"You were called a Nazi, and yes, that was wrong"
Actually it wasn't me.
"But you're equally as wrong to claim that this is the default position of the left. It is not."
Not old fashioned left wingers , thats why the new term liberal left was coined. In actual fact its really a combination of champagne socialists and right-on student types.
"multiculturalism is one of the greatest benefits of great cities like London."
Why exactly?
"Why would you want to have less variety?"
Why would you want more? I want my country to be my country , not some tower of babel style zoo.
The wonders of multiculturalism is a load of BS. Its a tired old mantra that gets wheeled out like a wheezing geriatric whenever some lefty (and more often that not a young one with fuck all life experience) wants to put a positive spin on separate cultures living apart in the same country.
Well I live in london mate , i was born here and IMO multicuturalism is NOT a benefit. The majority of english (whats left of us in this city) do NOT like it, do NOT want it and never asked for it. If I want to see foreign cultures and languages I can get on a plane. I don't need it in my street with people who can barely communicate with me.
"I see you have already been called a Nazi for posting this."
Thats the default response from the liberal left - call someone you disagree with a nazi and attempt to shut down discussion. All it does is ferment resentment and drive the issue underground but they're unfortunately too dumb to realise this.
... for sciences that are of more immediate benefit. I have nothing against blue sky research in particle physics but in general its a fairly esoteric area of research that produces little of value that trickles back to mankind as a whole. I'm really not convinced this level of funding should be spent on it when other areas of science and technology struggle to get ANY sort of funding. I believe that research budgets should be based on the potential value of any results that may crop up and nice it may well be to find the Higgs Boson from an academic point of view, how exactly will it benefit mankind compared to curing cancer , AIDS, designing new fuel efficient engines for example?
If the people running these experiments want this sort of budget then raise it privately (good luck!) , but don't expect taxpayers to fork out for it to this level. A tens of million dollars/euros fine , but 5.5 BILLION? Pu-lease...
.. but theres a limit and the amount of money the LHC is using up is taking the piss. Like it or not science is NOT and end in itself - its exists to benefit mankind. If there is little or no benefit for all these billions spent then IMO they would be better spent elsewhere. I'm sorry if that upsets some people but theres nothing special about particle physics than means it alone should get virtually a blank cheque for any scheme that is dreamt up for it. Some returns are needed from this potential white elephant and fast, and I don't just mean in some more chapters for postgraduate textbooks or something for professors to argue over in university debates. This money comes from taxpayers - us - it didn't grow on trees and I think it reasonable to expect taxpayers to get something back from it.
If you have complete control of the machine you can just intercept and vet anything that comes from the ethernet interface. Once any remote operation/update ability had been discovered it would soon be disabled and results spoofed back to the sender.
The majority of catholics in africa follow the decrees the pope or his predecessors have made. That includes not using condoms as its apparently a sin.
Its not me who's blind to the facts pal, sounds like you might be however.
If you have physical access to the circuit board then frankly short of encrypting every single data and address line theres not much any company can do to prevent hack attempts.
"Nobody gives a flying fuck what happened hundreds of years ago, this is now, and dragging up past idiocy in an attempt to hand wave current idiocy is disingenuous at best,"
Do let us know when a group of scientologists fly a plane into some skyscrapers and blow up 3000 people won't you.
And no , I'm not a scientologist btw. I treat all religions/cults with equal disdain. But to say the established religions have no evil axes to grind is moronic.
I graduated from high school many decades ago sonny - I suspect you're the one who has yet to do so. When you've seen a bit of the world you might understand people and the nonsense a lot of them follow called religion a bit better. No doubt you're just getting defensive because you're probably been brainwashed by your parents into believing some or other load of nonsense they call their religion and you're still at that age where you see the world and its issues as very black and white.
After all, the catholic church is probably responsible for more misery in africa due to its attitude to contraception than any other single institution.
All religions fuck with gullible and/or insecure peoples heads. How is scientology different?
To me its just a bunch of gullible people believing some texts that have little if any supporting evidence (and in many cases evidence against).
So scientology is a crock. You think the abrahamic religions which believe in a magic garden with a talking snake and a man made out of clay and a woman made out of a rib make any more logical sense??
All religion is rubbish , it just depends how many people believe the rubbish which defines whether a particular belief system is classed as a religion or a wacky cult (which ironically all religions started out as).
Just because the laws of physics IN THIS UNIVERSE prevent that doesn't mean it can't happen since by definition the low entropy state the universe started in was created (in some form) by alternative laws of physics possibly outside this universe since the laws we know didn't exist at that point.
There's no reason why these alternative physical laws couldn't suddenly kick back in when the universe reaches a certain entropy state and start to reverse the whole process back to zero. Some people would say time would then be going in reverse but this doesn't need to be the case.
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Lets hope it looks better than that hideous mock up photo. My mum has a kitchen radio that looks similar to that.
Why can't Sony just build a playstation that looks like a nice sophisticated piece of stacking hi-fi instead of either
something that looks like it escaped from toys-r-us (PS1 & 2) or looks like something Bauhaus would have in their
living room (PS3) ?
"and no, hard work doesn't entitle you to get money"
Yes it does if you decide to sell your work instead of giving it away.
"even if you persist for years; and it most certainly doesn't entitle you to enforce rules designed to make you money on others."
What is this , Communism 101?
"Maybe you should consider getting a day job"
Got one thanks. How about you Mr Left Wing Student?
"Then you wouldn't have to try to control other people"
Nothing to do with controlling. If you want the work pay for it. Don't expect to get it for free if its not being given away free. And don't even start to bleat about your rights since you obviously have no idea what rights are.
"through government monopoly"
And which "government monopoly" would this be? Or are we heading off into conspiracy theory here?
"Oh the irony."
Hardly. You're a cookie cutter lefty and sadly typical of the type. Mind you , you probably didn't even think your post up - you probably just copied it.
Its not past tense much as you'd like it otherwise.
Graffiti is done by underachieving teenagers and immature 20-somethings who generally can't spell, have no respect for other peoples property and have little or no talent artistic or otherwise anyway.
Now move along please, nothing more to see
"and the false need of some people, to control that information."
What a load of reactionary BS. People control information for a number of reasons but copyright is there so the people who created the work - you know , the ones who spent months or years creating a piece of music or a book (surprise! They don't just magic themselves into existence!) - can earn some money from their efforts before ungrateful and clueless morons like you think you're entitled to it for free just because you can copy it easily.
Grow up!
I never mentioned the economy either though more people + less jobs is never a good combination.
But never mind, thanks for playing.
Did I mention colour? You're so blinded by your own prejudices you can't see further than the spittle on your lips you sad man.
I don't care what colour someone is , its the cultures I have issue with. I have no problem with black british for example.
But then people like me don't fit into your simplistic theories do we which really irritates you so you default to the
standard mindless chanting of halfwit liberals everywhere "nazi, racist" etc etc.
Loser.
Yeah , show how much conviction you have by posting anonymously.
"small-minded bigots like you are an increasingly small minority"
Get out more , you'll find out how wrong you are.
"5.5 Billion to show that the brightest people from a variety of countries can work together for the good of mankind is a bargain"
Well I'm glad you think an academic group hug is worth 5.5 billion. I'm afraid I don't and I'm not alone in that.
"You remind me of the kid at school who would ask what relevance every single thing they were being taught would have in a work place."
If you're going to be patronising you might try and get the point first.
"You mean like the computer you wrote your post on?"
Funny you should mention that - Babbage was given government money specifically to build a machine to calculate log tables amongst other things that could be used by the navy. When he failed to produce funding was withdrawn. Electronic computers came about mainly due to the efforts against the nazis in WW2.
"The medicine that has roughly doubled life expectancy in the developed world in the past few hundred years or so?"
Big pharm spends money on drugs it'll get a return on. It doesn't do it just for the hell of it.
So thats 2 of your arguments shot out the water.
I have nothing against pure research , but there you can't just hand out a blank cheques otherwise you might as well just fund any old artist who promises that one day he might surpass Rembrant.
The medicine that has roughly doubled life expectancy in the developed world in the past few hundred years or so?
"the left/right political spectrum is a very poor analogy for the real world,"
Totally agree. But there is a certain group of people who hold certain social views who can be classed as liberal left.
"You were called a Nazi, and yes, that was wrong"
Actually it wasn't me.
"But you're equally as wrong to claim that this is the default position of the left. It is not."
Not old fashioned left wingers , thats why the new term liberal left was coined. In actual fact its really a combination of champagne socialists and right-on student types.
"multiculturalism is one of the greatest benefits of great cities like London."
Why exactly?
"Why would you want to have less variety?"
Why would you want more? I want my country to be my country , not some tower of babel style zoo.
The wonders of multiculturalism is a load of BS. Its a tired old mantra that gets wheeled out like a wheezing geriatric whenever some lefty (and more often that not a young one with fuck all life experience) wants to put a positive spin on separate cultures living apart in the same country.
Well I live in london mate , i was born here and IMO multicuturalism is NOT a benefit. The majority of english (whats left of us in this city) do NOT like it, do NOT want it and never asked for it. If I want to see foreign cultures and languages I can get on a plane. I don't need it in my street with people who can barely communicate with me.
"I see you have already been called a Nazi for posting this."
Thats the default response from the liberal left - call someone you disagree with a nazi and attempt to shut down discussion. All it does is ferment resentment and drive the issue underground but they're unfortunately too dumb to realise this.
... for sciences that are of more immediate benefit. I have nothing against blue sky research in particle physics but in general its a fairly esoteric area of research that produces little of value that trickles back to mankind as a whole. I'm really not convinced this level of funding should be spent on it when other areas of science and technology struggle to get ANY sort of funding. I believe that research budgets should be based on the potential value of any results that may crop up and nice it may well be to find the Higgs Boson from an academic point of view, how exactly will it benefit mankind compared to curing cancer , AIDS, designing new fuel efficient engines for example?
If the people running these experiments want this sort of budget then raise it privately (good luck!) , but don't expect taxpayers to fork out for it to this level. A tens of million dollars/euros fine , but 5.5 BILLION? Pu-lease...
.. but theres a limit and the amount of money the LHC is using up is taking the piss. Like it or not science is NOT and end in itself - its exists to benefit mankind. If there is little or no benefit for all these billions spent then IMO they would be better spent elsewhere. I'm sorry if that upsets some people but theres nothing special about particle physics than means it alone should get virtually a blank cheque for any scheme that is dreamt up for it. Some returns are needed from this potential white elephant and fast, and I don't just mean in some more chapters for postgraduate textbooks or something for professors to argue over in university debates. This money comes from taxpayers - us - it didn't grow on trees and I think it reasonable to expect taxpayers to get something back from it.
"code triggered remotely"
If you have complete control of the machine you can just intercept and vet anything that comes from the ethernet interface. Once any remote operation/update ability had been discovered it would soon be disabled and results spoofed back to the sender.
The majority of catholics in africa follow the decrees the pope or his predecessors have made. That includes not using condoms as its apparently a sin.
Its not me who's blind to the facts pal, sounds like you might be however.
If you have physical access to the circuit board then frankly short of encrypting every single data and address line theres not much any company can do to prevent hack attempts.
"and to blame that on the Catholic church is laughable."
Oh really? So using condoms doesn't halt the spread of AIDS then? It doesn't prevent the population growing out of control?
"local superstitions and practices"
We're talking an entire continent. Newsflash - Africa isn't a single country with a single culture.
"and the way bush meat is slaughtered "
Oh right, because all HIV is always caught from bush meat is it? Which particular animal and which part of africa are we talking about here?
Do you have a clue or did you lose it on the way to your keyboard?
"Nobody gives a flying fuck what happened hundreds of years ago, this is now, and dragging up past idiocy in an attempt to hand wave current idiocy is disingenuous at best,"
Do let us know when a group of scientologists fly a plane into some skyscrapers and blow up 3000 people won't you.
And no , I'm not a scientologist btw. I treat all religions/cults with equal disdain. But to say the established religions have no evil axes to grind is moronic.
If you don't want a reply you don't like then don't post in the first place.
Moron.
I graduated from high school many decades ago sonny - I suspect you're the one who has yet to do so. When you've seen a bit of the world you might understand people and the nonsense a lot of them follow called religion a bit better. No doubt you're just getting defensive because you're probably been brainwashed by your parents into believing some or other load of nonsense they call their religion and you're still at that age where you see the world and its issues as very black and white.
After all, the catholic church is probably responsible for more misery in africa due to its attitude to contraception than any other single institution.
All religions fuck with gullible and/or insecure peoples heads. How is scientology different?
To me its just a bunch of gullible people believing some texts that have little if any supporting evidence (and in many cases evidence against).
So scientology is a crock. You think the abrahamic religions which believe in a magic garden with a talking snake and a man made out of clay and a woman made out of a rib make any more logical sense??
All religion is rubbish , it just depends how many people believe the rubbish which defines whether a particular belief system is classed as a religion or a wacky cult (which ironically all religions started out as).
Just because the laws of physics IN THIS UNIVERSE prevent that doesn't mean it can't happen since by definition the low entropy state the universe started in was created (in some form) by alternative laws of physics possibly outside this universe since the laws we know didn't exist at that point.
There's no reason why these alternative physical laws couldn't suddenly kick back in when the universe reaches a certain entropy state and start to reverse the whole process back to zero. Some people would say time would then be going in reverse but this doesn't need to be the case.