So, which do you enjoy more, antagonizing people on internet forums, or poking dogs through chain link fences with sticks?
No, that was unfair. I understand. You're not doing this for fun... this is a moral endeavor. Clearly, you're doing this to defend the rights of all the other people who enjoy poking dogs with sticks. That's freedom!
Last time someone tried to physically dominate me, I saw them clearly, I rejected them clearly, I got my face broken, I broke their nose and their arm and their ribs, and I went to the hospital happy.
When I'm confronted with manipulators, and I watch helplessly as they twist words and turn my fellow men into blind idiots, it ruins my whole day and causes me to get into stupid arguments with my girlfriend.
I value integrity far more than safety, any day of the week.
Yeah, I see the difference between manipulation and violence. Violence leaves a person with their dignity, and allows them to live or die as a free man with their integrity intact. Manipulation transforms a man into a reactionary animal and leaves him lingering in that state. Manipulation is worse than violence.
Sure, you can try communicating calmly and rationally with people, if you like getting ignored. But if you want results, you've got to hit them in the old lizard brain.
Sure, you can try communicating calmly and rationally with people, if you like getting ignored. But if you want results, knock them to the ground, step on their neck, put a gun to their head, and force them to listen.
The moral of the story is, if you're going to do the bait and switch thing on the internet, you better get your money back out faster than Mr Murdoch did.
Swear words are the equivalent to howling in pain or rage. They're degenerate, and they evoke emotional reactions in other people, causing those other peoples thoughts to also degenerate into mindless, primitive emotional reactions, overriding their capacity to reason things through and act effectively.
If it's important enough to swear about, it's important enough to communicate intelligibly. Either you're letting the rest of us down by not communicating what you've perceived in a fashion that we can digest and act upon, or you're making a spectacle of yourself and needlessly distracting the rest of us from what's important. Either way, you're part of the problem.
If you have a specific problem with one of the assumptions, logic, modeling, mathematics, data acquisition, or analysis, then point it out in detail. But saying, "that's just a theory" is not useful. Everything we do is based on theories.
Experiments are conducted based on our lack of confidence in those theories. Either this theory is trustworthy enough to make the whole experiment pointless, or it's not trustworthy and experiments are justified. You can't have it both ways, and anyone who attempts to defend the safety of an experiment with only the theories being tested as evidence is an idiot. There's uncertainty, and thus there's an experiment, and we don't really know what will happen. Period. Get over it already. One way or another, you're still going to die.
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's. John F. Kennedy
Here's some revolutionary speech, George Carlin style:
No, you don't need to do these things. You can have your parents and community nurture you as a young person and give you the tools and knowledge that they can, and create things for yourself. You've been systematically and forcibly separated from the tools you need so you can be dominated. What do you think the free software movement is about? It's about giving you tools and breaking your dependence.
The first thing to do is get rid of money. Money is an abstraction of power. It is the number one source of corruption.
Had a conversation with someone recently, and they were telling me you can't dictate to people unless you've got them under your thumb, and I don't, so I can't.
But they're wrong.
You dictate to people with gifts.
If I give you a plow, you can't use it for anything but making food.
If I give you a sword, you can't feed yourself with it without killing people.
It's a subtle thing, but it's still a tremendously powerful thing.
When you give someone money, anyone, you surrender all control over how they will use the power you have given them.
So, it's simple. Don't buy anything. Participate in co-operatives, and be involved. You want power, form a co-operative, and contribute labour. You want food, join a co-operative, and contribute labour.
Then you control your power.
That's it. That's the answer. Being involved in your life isn't as easy as giving someone else the reins, but you're free, because you're in control of what you support and what you don't.
That's why money is the root of all evil. It allows selfish and evil men to harness good men in ignorance.
You talk as though the good things in your life would wither and die if things were different from what they are. You just don't seem to grasp, you've given so much power away and had it squandered on fulfilling the arbitrary whims and machinations of an economic elite, and if it wasn't being squandered in such a fashion, you could have much more. And, of course, your dignity as well.
You're right that most companies don't choose to engage in those ruthless tactics.
However, the most powerful companies do. And we reward them. And we get what we deserve.
Look around you. This is how powerful companies are built. In every industry, right from food and power on to music and movies on to automobiles and military hardware and anything else you can think of, they are all run this way.
That's not an apology for any behavior. But, you need to recognize, for things to change, you can't just hate the player, and you can't just hate the game. You have to hate them both, and you have to hate them enough to set your own safety and comfort aside and put a stop to it by whatever means are necessary. They've always relied in you being too scared and or lazy to take the necessary steps, and they've always been right.
Well, then they should hire a gang of thugs to be their enforcers instead of subverting the police and the courts to do it for them. If they want to keep their games private, they should bury them under a tree and make a treasure map, then burn the map. After all, it doesn't serve the public interest in any way whatsoever to lock those people up. Though, really, those who makes a business model of sending goons around to enforce their inflated sense of entitlement to control what the rest of us do are the ones who ought to be locked up...
If they weren't interested in putting in effort, they wouldn't have made a fully functional game with just a three man team. I don't consider this to be any worse than when Grand Theft Auto stole architectural designs from the various cities they modeled. They didn't design any of those buildings, now did they? What's the difference?
Assuming that there is a looming bandwidth shortage; It seems to me that a very large portion of internet traffic is being generated to route around the law. So, if you want lots of free bandwidth that you don't need to pay for, it looks like it would be pretty cheap to fix the laws.
Yeah, but if you're going to use the cheap route and just use GPL'd code, why not just put a tarball up on your website?
Maybe because it creates an image where there is little to differentiate of your product from that of the next guy? Makes it kind of hard to justify ridiculous profit margins...
Can anyone suggest how you might go about tweaking the SQL it passes to SQL Lite to only search URLs (not necessarily only typed ones, but not page titles) and without the leading wildcard?
How about prefixing your searches with// as if it were a search keyword? After some uses you'll have this behavior habituated and won't notice it.
I use the search bar for searches. I use the URL bar for URLs. So, why would I ever type// into that bar without an https: in front of it? So I can fit into Mozillas scheme to capture the Luddites of the world and increase their market share?
Looks to me like the desire for power and influence over the bottom 50% has perverted yet another useful tool one step closer to being a television.
This doesn't give the old behavior. When you type "foo" in the address bar, it does a pattern search for "LIKE '%foo%'", rather than doing a pattern search for "LIKE 'foo%'" as you would expect from an auto-complete algorithm.
Can anyone suggest how you might go about tweaking the SQL it passes to SQL Lite to only search URLs (not necessarily only typed ones, but not page titles) and without the leading wildcard?
The point is that this high school physics example is bad, because it allows people who don't know what they're talking about to make assertions about what is impossible without thinking it through or doing any research.
In this example, the potential energy of the mass will increase when the lunar body is pulling in the same direction as the earth, even though there was no movement relative to the earth.
None of which gives the slightest attention to the fact that there are observed phenomena that are not consistent with the abstractions of reality that Einstein created.
That would by my grade 9 typing class for me. 1988-89. Coming up on 20 years ago... damn I feel old.
Funny, I remember grade 9 typing being a prerequisite for computer courses, and thinking at the time how stupid that was. But it probably did more good for my career in IT than any of the high school computer programming classes I subsequently took.
The 'qwerty' bit is nice (same as with the blackberry) but it would not be enough to get me to switch (and the keys will be *even smaller*)
Hey, if you don't mind having the hammers that make the letters jam when you type too fast, stick to what you're using. Personally, I think there's a real need in the world for technology that makes people type slower, and I'm sure it's going to take the world by storm. I'm filing my fingernails to points in anticipation this very moment.
Do you know anything whatsoever about the specs being discussed? Have you ever read them? Or are you just spouting shit about how since you don't care about the issue, it doesn't exist?
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So, which do you enjoy more, antagonizing people on internet forums, or poking dogs through chain link fences with sticks?
No, that was unfair. I understand. You're not doing this for fun... this is a moral endeavor. Clearly, you're doing this to defend the rights of all the other people who enjoy poking dogs with sticks. That's freedom!
Of course it was.
Last time someone tried to physically dominate me, I saw them clearly, I rejected them clearly, I got my face broken, I broke their nose and their arm and their ribs, and I went to the hospital happy.
When I'm confronted with manipulators, and I watch helplessly as they twist words and turn my fellow men into blind idiots, it ruins my whole day and causes me to get into stupid arguments with my girlfriend.
I value integrity far more than safety, any day of the week.
Yeah, I see the difference between manipulation and violence. Violence leaves a person with their dignity, and allows them to live or die as a free man with their integrity intact. Manipulation transforms a man into a reactionary animal and leaves him lingering in that state. Manipulation is worse than violence.
Sure, you can try communicating calmly and rationally with people, if you like getting ignored. But if you want results, you've got to hit them in the old lizard brain.
Sure, you can try communicating calmly and rationally with people, if you like getting ignored. But if you want results, knock them to the ground, step on their neck, put a gun to their head, and force them to listen.
What's the difference?
The moral of the story is, if you're going to do the bait and switch thing on the internet, you better get your money back out faster than Mr Murdoch did.
Swear words are the equivalent to howling in pain or rage. They're degenerate, and they evoke emotional reactions in other people, causing those other peoples thoughts to also degenerate into mindless, primitive emotional reactions, overriding their capacity to reason things through and act effectively.
If it's important enough to swear about, it's important enough to communicate intelligibly. Either you're letting the rest of us down by not communicating what you've perceived in a fashion that we can digest and act upon, or you're making a spectacle of yourself and needlessly distracting the rest of us from what's important. Either way, you're part of the problem.
If you have a specific problem with one of the assumptions, logic, modeling, mathematics, data acquisition, or analysis, then point it out in detail. But saying, "that's just a theory" is not useful. Everything we do is based on theories.
Experiments are conducted based on our lack of confidence in those theories. Either this theory is trustworthy enough to make the whole experiment pointless, or it's not trustworthy and experiments are justified. You can't have it both ways, and anyone who attempts to defend the safety of an experiment with only the theories being tested as evidence is an idiot. There's uncertainty, and thus there's an experiment, and we don't really know what will happen. Period. Get over it already. One way or another, you're still going to die.
Couldn't agree more.
Here's some revolutionary speech:
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.
John F. Kennedy
Here's some revolutionary speech, George Carlin style:
Fuck the Police!
NWA
Thanks George.
Who cares if they're pissed off? They're still going to attack the world with thought control and military aggression either way. Fuck em.
No, you don't need to do these things. You can have your parents and community nurture you as a young person and give you the tools and knowledge that they can, and create things for yourself. You've been systematically and forcibly separated from the tools you need so you can be dominated. What do you think the free software movement is about? It's about giving you tools and breaking your dependence.
The first thing to do is get rid of money. Money is an abstraction of power. It is the number one source of corruption.
Had a conversation with someone recently, and they were telling me you can't dictate to people unless you've got them under your thumb, and I don't, so I can't.
But they're wrong.
You dictate to people with gifts.
If I give you a plow, you can't use it for anything but making food.
If I give you a sword, you can't feed yourself with it without killing people.
It's a subtle thing, but it's still a tremendously powerful thing.
When you give someone money, anyone, you surrender all control over how they will use the power you have given them.
So, it's simple. Don't buy anything. Participate in co-operatives, and be involved. You want power, form a co-operative, and contribute labour. You want food, join a co-operative, and contribute labour.
Then you control your power.
That's it. That's the answer. Being involved in your life isn't as easy as giving someone else the reins, but you're free, because you're in control of what you support and what you don't.
That's why money is the root of all evil. It allows selfish and evil men to harness good men in ignorance.
You talk as though the good things in your life would wither and die if things were different from what they are. You just don't seem to grasp, you've given so much power away and had it squandered on fulfilling the arbitrary whims and machinations of an economic elite, and if it wasn't being squandered in such a fashion, you could have much more. And, of course, your dignity as well.
Think about it.
You're right that most companies don't choose to engage in those ruthless tactics.
However, the most powerful companies do. And we reward them. And we get what we deserve.
Look around you. This is how powerful companies are built. In every industry, right from food and power on to music and movies on to automobiles and military hardware and anything else you can think of, they are all run this way.
That's not an apology for any behavior. But, you need to recognize, for things to change, you can't just hate the player, and you can't just hate the game. You have to hate them both, and you have to hate them enough to set your own safety and comfort aside and put a stop to it by whatever means are necessary. They've always relied in you being too scared and or lazy to take the necessary steps, and they've always been right.
And we get what we deserve.
Who gives a shit about running Windows XP on some ancient box. Lets focus on the real issues here...
Don't you think Tux and Ruby look like a fat dude with an escort?
Well, then they should hire a gang of thugs to be their enforcers instead of subverting the police and the courts to do it for them. If they want to keep their games private, they should bury them under a tree and make a treasure map, then burn the map. After all, it doesn't serve the public interest in any way whatsoever to lock those people up. Though, really, those who makes a business model of sending goons around to enforce their inflated sense of entitlement to control what the rest of us do are the ones who ought to be locked up...
If they weren't interested in putting in effort, they wouldn't have made a fully functional game with just a three man team. I don't consider this to be any worse than when Grand Theft Auto stole architectural designs from the various cities they modeled. They didn't design any of those buildings, now did they? What's the difference?
So, philosophical differences aside... is the game any good? Sucks that you won't be able to play it...
Assuming that there is a looming bandwidth shortage; It seems to me that a very large portion of internet traffic is being generated to route around the law. So, if you want lots of free bandwidth that you don't need to pay for, it looks like it would be pretty cheap to fix the laws.
Yeah, but if you're going to use the cheap route and just use GPL'd code, why not just put a tarball up on your website?
Maybe because it creates an image where there is little to differentiate of your product from that of the next guy? Makes it kind of hard to justify ridiculous profit margins...
Better question is, should you be held personally accountable for having funding DRM by making a purchase?
Far as I'm concerned, if you bought it, the finger is pointed at you for giving them money to perpetuate this shit.
Can anyone suggest how you might go about tweaking the SQL it passes to SQL Lite to only search URLs (not necessarily only typed ones, but not page titles) and without the leading wildcard?
// as if it were a search keyword? After some uses you'll have this behavior habituated and won't notice it.
// into that bar without an https: in front of it? So I can fit into Mozillas scheme to capture the Luddites of the world and increase their market share?
How about prefixing your searches with
I use the search bar for searches. I use the URL bar for URLs. So, why would I ever type
Looks to me like the desire for power and influence over the bottom 50% has perverted yet another useful tool one step closer to being a television.
This doesn't give the old behavior. When you type "foo" in the address bar, it does a pattern search for "LIKE '%foo%'", rather than doing a pattern search for "LIKE 'foo%'" as you would expect from an auto-complete algorithm.
Can anyone suggest how you might go about tweaking the SQL it passes to SQL Lite to only search URLs (not necessarily only typed ones, but not page titles) and without the leading wildcard?
The point is that this high school physics example is bad, because it allows people who don't know what they're talking about to make assertions about what is impossible without thinking it through or doing any research.
In this example, the potential energy of the mass will increase when the lunar body is pulling in the same direction as the earth, even though there was no movement relative to the earth.
None of which gives the slightest attention to the fact that there are observed phenomena that are not consistent with the abstractions of reality that Einstein created.
That would by my grade 9 typing class for me. 1988-89. Coming up on 20 years ago... damn I feel old.
Funny, I remember grade 9 typing being a prerequisite for computer courses, and thinking at the time how stupid that was. But it probably did more good for my career in IT than any of the high school computer programming classes I subsequently took.
BTW: You are old.
The 'qwerty' bit is nice (same as with the blackberry) but it would not be enough to get me to switch (and the keys will be *even smaller*)
Hey, if you don't mind having the hammers that make the letters jam when you type too fast, stick to what you're using. Personally, I think there's a real need in the world for technology that makes people type slower, and I'm sure it's going to take the world by storm. I'm filing my fingernails to points in anticipation this very moment.
Do you know anything whatsoever about the specs being discussed? Have you ever read them? Or are you just spouting shit about how since you don't care about the issue, it doesn't exist?