In my eyes, until you have a child of your own, you're still a kid. It knocks you out of the center of your universe. If you have one, you likely know what I'm talking about, and if you don't, you'll likely act all outraged. Trying to explain it is like trying to explain sex to a virgin.
But then, a lot of you probably don't understand that one either...
Ordinary citizens can set up mesh networking and render the wired service providers damned near obsolete.
Don't worry, we'll just make it a crime to run an open access point since someone might use it to do something bad and not be caught. That'll take care of that.
First he helps destroy the credibility of the concepts of privacy and secrecy in the population, and now, with the 3rd largest IPO in history, he's helping destroy the credibility of the economic system...
I don't know if he's more like Jesus or Lucifer, but damn I'm starting to love that guy...
Everyone in my company pretty much signed up with Google+ at the same time. I really wanted to like it. But then the receptionist started filling the stream with hardcore feminist rhetoric, and I had to stop going on there so I wouldn't tear her arm off and beat her to death with it.
He admitted to copying and sharing hundreds of songs according to the article. His defense was that the U.S. Copyright Act is unconstitutional which is obviously a ridiculous and a desperate act which is why the court didn't listen to it.
The Congress shall have Power... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries. ------Article I, Section 8, Clause 8
What is exactly is there to listen to when the Constitution makes it clear Congress has the power to enforce copyright?
Music is neither Science, nor is it useful. Are you sure you weren't looking for a different passage?
Leadership is about having wisdom instead of intellect and being decisive instead of skeptical and non-committal. These aren't qualities scientists are known for. Leaders have advisers for those things.
Its popularity came from the sword, and its strength is its capacity to sow confusion. I don't know if it's the open source movement I'd compare it with...
It would take quite the academic to not know what binoculars are. Seriously, almost everything in the world is a throwback/reference to something that nobody uses/knows what it is any more. Compared to the English language, these icons are stupidly up to date. Fact is, they become self referencing and everyone knows what they mean. I don't want a big long box that says Address book when I can click on an easily recognisable icon. Stop fucking about with a system that works perfectly because of some flawed ideology.
That sounds great, but what about people who have zero musical talent? I have played piano, bass, and guitar (none more than mediocre unfortunately) and can tell you that engaging in a hours long "jam session" with people who are not interested in playing musical instruments is about as fun to them as the video games are to you. Not everyone can, nor should play musical instruments. Keep handing a bunch of folks with little to no talent musical instruments and encouraging them to keep playing and soon you will have the next version of American Idol.
For those people, I've got things like recorders, whistles, xylophones, hand drums, rattles, tambourines, rain sticks, single stringed instruments and a snake charmers pipe.
Everyone can and should play musical instruments. It's good for you. Where I live, the "kitchen party" lifestyle is accepted and commonplace, and it's a hell of a lot healthier way to spend an evening than playing video games or watching other people perform on TV.
What are they? Buying a $50 game that is pure escapism (great for a "mental health vacation") - some games for up to 50-60 hours of entertainment - is about as cheap as it gets. Entertaining yourself for around/under $1 per hour is pretty darn good. And if you wait and don't buy games brand new, that 50-60 hours can be had for $20-$30 often. I have also wasted plenty of time on games that were under $5 or even free.
Here's a suggestion: Musical instruments.
When I visit my friends with games systems, the routine is the same... bunch of guys sitting around staring vacuously at a screen, occasionally passing a controller around.
When my friends visit me, it's more likely that people grab one of the 20 different cheap instruments sitting on the bookcase in the living room and we have a jam session.
A degree is a sign of lack of inititive and a willingness to submit. The surprising thing is that anyone who rises to the top in such endeavours has one, not that this lying scumbag doesn't.
Kind of makes all those student loans you guys took out look rather stupid, doesn't it?
In terms of copying being less serious than jaywalking. Media represents hundreds of billions of dollars combined. The destruction of the US media industry would exceed many times the destruction on 9/11 in terms of economic value. It would exceed the worst natural disasters like Katrina many times over.
You people are dangerously insane. Feel free to spout more crazed drivel in response.
If there is a threatening environment, strong armor is selected for, and soft exposed flesh makes you weak.
When the environment becomes less hostile, wasting food energy growing strong armor that serves no purpose makes you weak.
When the strong in the culture actively preserve the non-optimized mutants, the culture becomes stronger. Sometimes, that means the armored protecting the soft, sometimes the soft feeding the armored. The more diversity, the stronger they are.
If the environment become highly hostile very quickly, and massive death caused the variation to narrow and eliminate the squishy, the culture becomes highly evolved. It also becomes very weak, and vulnerable.
This is because if the environment goes through another rapid shift and these highly evolved creatures don't suit the new environment, they will all die and the culture will be no more.
There is no "Master Race". Evolution doesn't create strength in a culture. Mutation and diversity create strength in a culture, like resources saved for a rainy day.
If you push a culture to the brink of destruction, and their resources are just about spent, and only those individuals most optimized for the current environment are left alive... THAT is evolution.
...for every other gift you receive with origins you might disagree with, be it sneakers from overseas or any form of plastic.
As a matter of fact, sometimes I do. The degree to which I bite my tongue varies. Most people avoid the whole thing by giving me things like seeds, tools, hand crafted items, vintage clothing and scotch whiskey.
The justification for WebM is that it would allow people to freely share videos using your own infrastructure without charge and without additional cost.
It's not about the consequence for the consumer, it's about the chilling effect it has on free culture.
It has HUGE consequences. Mozilla knew that, that's why they tried to play hardball.
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You just don't get it. Mobile is going to hire Steve Ballmer to crush them. With a chair.
In my eyes, until you have a child of your own, you're still a kid. It knocks you out of the center of your universe. If you have one, you likely know what I'm talking about, and if you don't, you'll likely act all outraged. Trying to explain it is like trying to explain sex to a virgin.
But then, a lot of you probably don't understand that one either...
The last oracle I spoke to said: "For a good time engrave `Elbereth'."
She lied. You wouldn't get laid by the sluttiest succubus on earth if you did that.
Don't worry, we'll just make it a crime to run an open access point since someone might use it to do something bad and not be caught. That'll take care of that.
Just like it took care of piracy, eh?
First he helps destroy the credibility of the concepts of privacy and secrecy in the population, and now, with the 3rd largest IPO in history, he's helping destroy the credibility of the economic system...
I don't know if he's more like Jesus or Lucifer, but damn I'm starting to love that guy...
Ordinary citizens can set up mesh networking and render the wired service providers damned near obsolete.
This development could be the kick in the ass they need to finally do it, resulting in a net positive.
Everyone in my company pretty much signed up with Google+ at the same time. I really wanted to like it. But then the receptionist started filling the stream with hardcore feminist rhetoric, and I had to stop going on there so I wouldn't tear her arm off and beat her to death with it.
Good post.
That's right. It wasn't real science that was impugned. It was "professional" scientists.
And you can go blah blah blah telling me how stupid we are for not trusting you all you want. The stupid ones are the ones that do.
Yes, and just saying you enjoy something doesn't mean it's useful. Many enjoyable things are useless.
Music is neither Science, nor is it useful. Are you sure you weren't looking for a different passage?
I don't think you understant what the word useful can mean. Music has a use. It can be used to provide enjoyment.
being of use or service; serving some purpose; advantageous, helpful, or of good effect: a useful member of society.
of practical use, as for doing work; producing material results; supplying common needs: the useful arts; useful work.
Yes, music can provide enjoyment. So can blowjobs and illegal drugs. Would you argue they are also useful?
He admitted to copying and sharing hundreds of songs according to the article. His defense was that the U.S. Copyright Act is unconstitutional which is obviously a ridiculous and a desperate act which is why the court didn't listen to it.
The Congress shall have Power ... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries. ------Article I, Section 8, Clause 8
What is exactly is there to listen to when the Constitution makes it clear Congress has the power to enforce copyright?
Music is neither Science, nor is it useful. Are you sure you weren't looking for a different passage?
More often than not, scientists falsify their results to get ahead. The idea that scientists are bastions of truth is a myth.
There was an article on this very subject on the front page of slashdot a week ago.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/05/11/1232236/positive-bias-could-erode-public-trust-in-science
Leadership is about having wisdom instead of intellect and being decisive instead of skeptical and non-committal. These aren't qualities scientists are known for. Leaders have advisers for those things.
Its popularity came from the sword, and its strength is its capacity to sow confusion. I don't know if it's the open source movement I'd compare it with...
No one has the slightest idea what the icons are.
It would take quite the academic to not know what binoculars are. Seriously, almost everything in the world is a throwback/reference to something that nobody uses/knows what it is any more. Compared to the English language, these icons are stupidly up to date. Fact is, they become self referencing and everyone knows what they mean. I don't want a big long box that says Address book when I can click on an easily recognisable icon. Stop fucking about with a system that works perfectly because of some flawed ideology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Language
Experts agree... the English language is fucked.
That sounds great, but what about people who have zero musical talent? I have played piano, bass, and guitar (none more than mediocre unfortunately) and can tell you that engaging in a hours long "jam session" with people who are not interested in playing musical instruments is about as fun to them as the video games are to you. Not everyone can, nor should play musical instruments. Keep handing a bunch of folks with little to no talent musical instruments and encouraging them to keep playing and soon you will have the next version of American Idol.
For those people, I've got things like recorders, whistles, xylophones, hand drums, rattles, tambourines, rain sticks, single stringed instruments and a snake charmers pipe.
Everyone can and should play musical instruments. It's good for you. Where I live, the "kitchen party" lifestyle is accepted and commonplace, and it's a hell of a lot healthier way to spend an evening than playing video games or watching other people perform on TV.
What are they? Buying a $50 game that is pure escapism (great for a "mental health vacation") - some games for up to 50-60 hours of entertainment - is about as cheap as it gets. Entertaining yourself for around/under $1 per hour is pretty darn good. And if you wait and don't buy games brand new, that 50-60 hours can be had for $20-$30 often. I have also wasted plenty of time on games that were under $5 or even free.
Here's a suggestion: Musical instruments.
When I visit my friends with games systems, the routine is the same... bunch of guys sitting around staring vacuously at a screen, occasionally passing a controller around.
When my friends visit me, it's more likely that people grab one of the 20 different cheap instruments sitting on the bookcase in the living room and we have a jam session.
A degree is a sign of lack of inititive and a willingness to submit. The surprising thing is that anyone who rises to the top in such endeavours has one, not that this lying scumbag doesn't.
Kind of makes all those student loans you guys took out look rather stupid, doesn't it?
Fair enough.
So, when did "Gimp" fall out of popular use? Personally, I've never heard ANYONE ever use the word to describe anything but this piece of software.
Geek is also a seriously derogatory term for someone who is crippled. You see them at the circus, waving their flippers at you.
Didn't stop Best Buy from using the term in their marketing...
In terms of copying being less serious than jaywalking. Media represents hundreds of billions of dollars combined. The destruction of the US media industry would exceed many times the destruction on 9/11 in terms of economic value. It would exceed the worst natural disasters like Katrina many times over.
You people are dangerously insane. Feel free to spout more crazed drivel in response.
If there is a threatening environment, strong armor is selected for, and soft exposed flesh makes you weak.
When the environment becomes less hostile, wasting food energy growing strong armor that serves no purpose makes you weak.
When the strong in the culture actively preserve the non-optimized mutants, the culture becomes stronger. Sometimes, that means the armored protecting the soft, sometimes the soft feeding the armored. The more diversity, the stronger they are.
If the environment become highly hostile very quickly, and massive death caused the variation to narrow and eliminate the squishy, the culture becomes highly evolved. It also becomes very weak, and vulnerable.
This is because if the environment goes through another rapid shift and these highly evolved creatures don't suit the new environment, they will all die and the culture will be no more.
There is no "Master Race". Evolution doesn't create strength in a culture. Mutation and diversity create strength in a culture, like resources saved for a rainy day.
If you push a culture to the brink of destruction, and their resources are just about spent, and only those individuals most optimized for the current environment are left alive... THAT is evolution.
Evolution is weakness and death.
...for every other gift you receive with origins you might disagree with, be it sneakers from overseas or any form of plastic.
As a matter of fact, sometimes I do. The degree to which I bite my tongue varies. Most people avoid the whole thing by giving me things like seeds, tools, hand crafted items, vintage clothing and scotch whiskey.
Integrity is real, you know.
I'd feel guilty that the gift giver had funded what Apple is doing in the world. I'd be upset to receive such a gift.
The justification for WebM is that it would allow people to freely share videos using your own infrastructure without charge and without additional cost.
It's not about the consequence for the consumer, it's about the chilling effect it has on free culture.
It has HUGE consequences. Mozilla knew that, that's why they tried to play hardball.