This is made far worse, BTW, by consumer ignorance of the true cost of manufacture of the things they buy. Products are becoming so complex and involve technologies that the average consumer can't even name much less understand them. They can't themselves determine a reasonable approximation of true value, and so they rely on the mass producers themselves to TELL THEM what products are worth. Consumers simply don't have enough information to even argue the matter. That's a recipe for an economy that no Libertarian would like.
What that counter-argument does is justify institutionalized usury. Usury is inequity in a transaction when there is not an equal exchange of value. That leads to concentration of wealth. Before the Industrial Age, gross concentration of wealth wasn't as commonplace, but the Industrial Age and mass production has made it possible to concentrate wealth in a fashion never seen before that: rather than ripping off just a few people for a lot, it's now possible to rip off a lot of people for just a little and still get just as filthy rich. The people who control the means of mass production can get filthy rich without ever having to worry about villagers wielding pitchforks; the usury is spread so thin that individual villagers just don't notice the tiny knife being inserted and twisted. Multiply that by hundreds of mass producers, though, and the villagers notice but can't figure out where to march with their pitchforks. That's why the Occupy movements are so disjointed right now; they really don't know who to blame because they have so many tiny little knives in their backs rather than one big one. I miss the good old days when you knew who the Really Bad Guy was. Now there's hundreds of Slightly Bad Guys.
Which is, of course, exactly why the Obama Administration has been "going nuclear" on domestic and especially non-domestic threats to that precious IP. It's what prompted the extreme and illegal actions against MegaUpload and Kim Dotcom, not to mention that fellow from the UK whose name and site escapes me who also faces a sort of extreme rendition. There's also WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, because our government also perceives the diplomatic cables, war documents and videos and all the rest that WikiLeaks has shared to be "intellectual property" of the government itself.
This is why "infringement" is no longer simply a civil matter. It's now a crime against the state.
No, I didn't. Neither did did the others who challenged your reasoning. I tried to leave some puzzle pieces for you to complete. I guess you don't do puzzles.
I won't be running. I'll be ignoring you from now on. You waste your own time and prove your irrelevance with every one of these screeds. I'm hardly the first person who's occupied so much of your attention and time, either. Too bad for you.
I won't be running. I'll be ignoring you. You waste your own time and prove your irrelevance with every one of these screeds. I'm hardly the first person who's occupied so much of your attention and time, either. Too bad for you....
I won't be running. I'll be ignoring you. You waste your own time and prove your irrelevance with every one of these screeds. I'm hardly the first person who's occupied so much of your attention and time, either. Too bad for you.
This is now the eighth post of mine that you've spammed in the last 20 minutes, on top of the earlier more scattered snipes. You're escalating. Does it give you some sense of power now to stalk and snipe at me pseudo-anonymously because I had the temerity and lack of diplomacy to criticize your behavior in public? Grow up and get over it. I called you fucked-up in so many words because you are fucked-up, significantly enough that it affects both your writing and your emotional state. This behavior right now, tracking down every recent post I've made and sniping anonymously at each one in some perverse attempt at revenge is just... juvenile. You have the emotional maturity of a ten-year-old. What next? Do you track me down and stalk me across the entire Internet? Will that finally make you feel powerful?
I have to wonder, though: how much potentially constructive personal time are you going to squander trying to (in your own mind) destroy me? You aren't powerful enough to truly make me go away, vanish from even Slashdot much less the Internet or the face of the Earth, so what's your endgame here? Do you honestly think what you're doing is going to cause me to run away in shame?
Find something constructive to do with your time. This isn't it.
This is now the eigth post of mine that you've spammed in the last 20 minutes, on top of the earlier more scattered snipes. You're escalating. Does it give you some sense of power now to stalk and snipe at me pseudo-anonymously because I had the temerity and lack of diplomacy to criticize your behavior in public? Grow up and get over it. I called you fucked-up in so many words because you are fucked-up, significantly enough that it affects both your writing and your emotional state. This behavior right now, tracking down every recent post I've made and sniping anonymously at each one in some perverse attempt at revenge is just... juvenile. You have the emotional maturity of a ten-year-old. What next? Do you track me down and stalk me across the entire Internet? Will that finally make you feel powerful?
I have to wonder, though: how much potentially constructive personal time are you going to squander trying to (in your own mind) destroy me? You aren't powerful enough to truly make me go away, vanish from even Slashdot much less the Internet or the face of the Earth, so what's your endgame here? Do you honestly think what you're doing is going to cause me to run away in shame?
Find something constructive to do with your time. This isn't it.
This is now the seventh post of mine that you've spammed in the last 15 minutes, on top of the earlier more scattered snipes. You're escalating. Does it give you some sense of power now to stalk and snipe at me pseudo-anonymously because I had the temerity and lack of diplomacy to criticize your behavior in public? Grow up and get over it. I called you fucked-up in so many words because you are fucked-up, significantly enough that it affects both your writing and your emotional state. This behavior right now, tracking down every recent post I've made and sniping anonymously at each one in some perverse attempt at revenge is just... juvenile. You have the emotional maturity of a ten-year-old. What next? Do you track me down and stalk me across the entire Internet? Will that finally make you feel powerful?
I have to wonder, though: how much potentially constructive personal time are you going to squander trying to (in your own mind) destroy me? You aren't powerful enough to truly make me go away, vanish from even Slashdot much less the Internet or the face of the Earth, so what's your endgame here? Do you honestly think what you're doing is going to cause me to run away in shame?
Find something constructive to do with your time. This isn't it.
You don't really grok "economy of scale" and how it arrives there in the first place, do you? And you can't claim being new here as a defense, but then your argument didn't really arise out of true ignorance in the first place, did it?
"The cranium is well designed to protect the brain in life and can, under the right circumstances, remain on duty long after the normal expectation of service," he said.
"Normal expectation of service"! Gotta remember that one.
... you'll see that the latest version for Windows is 3.2.
I clearly stated that I checked for a pushed update, which the software told me didn't exist. This new version isn't being pushed to existing installs (yet). I even spent a few minutes rummaging on the uTorrent site looking for a current version number, but I didn't get to that particular download page and they're not very forthcoming about it anywhere else... so I didn't know. I even downloaded it from a different link - with no description of the version - intending to check the file properties for a clue, but I got distracted by something more shiny. If I'd done that I also would have found the new version.
No matter... I've disabled the automatic updating today, so I won't be seeing it any time soon, and I certainly won't be executing that download. I'll be terminating it, with prejudice.
No, I don't have uTorrent for OSX. I have it installed natively in Windows 7 x64, no VMs or bootcamps anywhere in sight. I don't know what I said that provoked that conclusion, but you concluded incorrectly. I've never even bothered trying any of the streaming features and don't know much of anything about them, other than the barest knowledge that they exist. For me they're not a killer feature; I do a real good impression of a person demonstrating infinite patience.
So is that all it is, then? I've had that tab/feature disabled in Options for so long that I'd forgotten about it. I also disabled the Apps section and even the sidebar, since it's not relevant to the way I use it.
No matter. If they do decide to take a hard sell approach I'll find a way to mitigate it or find another app to do the job. I'm willing to pay/donate a bit for what the software does for me, but I'm not willing to tolerate blatant advertising. (Reminds me of some episodes of the past season of the reimagined Hawaii Five-O series, wherein some of the "product placement" was so excessive it made me throw up in my mouth a little every time.)
For better or worse, you really aren't neurotypical. Apparently for the worse, given the largely incoherent scrawl above and the other online examples of your attempts at communicating I've belatedly found. The software may be nifty, but I can't readily trust software from someone with a personality more borderline than Hans Reiser. There are plenty of other methods and tools to manage the hosts file and blocklists in general, whose authors aren't nearly so... provocative.
... because I've checked repeatedly for the latest version and there are no updates (v3.1.3 build 27220), yet there are simply no 'sponsored torrents' nor any advertising of any sort to see. As far as I can tell this is vaporware and much ado about something that hasn't actually happened. Did they somehow selectively roll it out to a certain demographic group, like maybe people whose default browser is Internet Explorer or whose browser isn't configured to request do-not-track?
Or maybe... my cranial powers and dislike of hard-sell advertising are both so staggering that I'm simply subconsciously willing these sponsored torrents not to appear? Yeah, that must be it....
The most consistent cure for chronic depression is chronic self-delusion. Everybody knows it but nobody wants to talk about it because that would burst the bubble and make everybody depressed.
Many security questions are a failure from the start due to poor selection. While one would expect that a security question would challenge an objective fact, many of them don't. Instead they challenge subjective facts, most often "favorite" things. What happens to a person's answers when his mental list of favorite things has changed? I've encountered some instances where these "favorite" questions were so prevalent that there wasn't even one objective question as a choice. While it's true that "favorites" might be less susceptible to data mining than objective facts, the last thing security questions should ever do is create the possibility that the legitimate user might be locked out because he can't recall what his "favorite" was at the time of the account's creation. This is akin to the bad habit of using e-mail addresses as usernames. What's more, many of these choose very poor subjects that lead to potentially ambiguous answers; there have been many occasions when I couldn't decide the correct answer to a "favorite" question even at the time of creation, much less a year later.
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This is made far worse, BTW, by consumer ignorance of the true cost of manufacture of the things they buy. Products are becoming so complex and involve technologies that the average consumer can't even name much less understand them. They can't themselves determine a reasonable approximation of true value, and so they rely on the mass producers themselves to TELL THEM what products are worth. Consumers simply don't have enough information to even argue the matter. That's a recipe for an economy that no Libertarian would like.
What that counter-argument does is justify institutionalized usury. Usury is inequity in a transaction when there is not an equal exchange of value. That leads to concentration of wealth. Before the Industrial Age, gross concentration of wealth wasn't as commonplace, but the Industrial Age and mass production has made it possible to concentrate wealth in a fashion never seen before that: rather than ripping off just a few people for a lot, it's now possible to rip off a lot of people for just a little and still get just as filthy rich. The people who control the means of mass production can get filthy rich without ever having to worry about villagers wielding pitchforks; the usury is spread so thin that individual villagers just don't notice the tiny knife being inserted and twisted. Multiply that by hundreds of mass producers, though, and the villagers notice but can't figure out where to march with their pitchforks. That's why the Occupy movements are so disjointed right now; they really don't know who to blame because they have so many tiny little knives in their backs rather than one big one. I miss the good old days when you knew who the Really Bad Guy was. Now there's hundreds of Slightly Bad Guys.
Which is, of course, exactly why the Obama Administration has been "going nuclear" on domestic and especially non-domestic threats to that precious IP. It's what prompted the extreme and illegal actions against MegaUpload and Kim Dotcom, not to mention that fellow from the UK whose name and site escapes me who also faces a sort of extreme rendition. There's also WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, because our government also perceives the diplomatic cables, war documents and videos and all the rest that WikiLeaks has shared to be "intellectual property" of the government itself.
This is why "infringement" is no longer simply a civil matter. It's now a crime against the state.
No, I didn't. Neither did did the others who challenged your reasoning. I tried to leave some puzzle pieces for you to complete. I guess you don't do puzzles.
I won't be running. I'll be ignoring you from now on. You waste your own time and prove your irrelevance with every one of these screeds. I'm hardly the first person who's occupied so much of your attention and time, either. Too bad for you.
I won't be running. I'll be ignoring you. You waste your own time and prove your irrelevance with every one of these screeds. I'm hardly the first person who's occupied so much of your attention and time, either. Too bad for you....
I won't be running. I'll be ignoring you. You waste your own time and prove your irrelevance with every one of these screeds. I'm hardly the first person who's occupied so much of your attention and time, either. Too bad for you.
This is now the eighth post of mine that you've spammed in the last 20 minutes, on top of the earlier more scattered snipes. You're escalating. Does it give you some sense of power now to stalk and snipe at me pseudo-anonymously because I had the temerity and lack of diplomacy to criticize your behavior in public? Grow up and get over it. I called you fucked-up in so many words because you are fucked-up, significantly enough that it affects both your writing and your emotional state. This behavior right now, tracking down every recent post I've made and sniping anonymously at each one in some perverse attempt at revenge is just... juvenile. You have the emotional maturity of a ten-year-old. What next? Do you track me down and stalk me across the entire Internet? Will that finally make you feel powerful?
I have to wonder, though: how much potentially constructive personal time are you going to squander trying to (in your own mind) destroy me? You aren't powerful enough to truly make me go away, vanish from even Slashdot much less the Internet or the face of the Earth, so what's your endgame here? Do you honestly think what you're doing is going to cause me to run away in shame?
Find something constructive to do with your time. This isn't it.
This is now the eigth post of mine that you've spammed in the last 20 minutes, on top of the earlier more scattered snipes. You're escalating. Does it give you some sense of power now to stalk and snipe at me pseudo-anonymously because I had the temerity and lack of diplomacy to criticize your behavior in public? Grow up and get over it. I called you fucked-up in so many words because you are fucked-up, significantly enough that it affects both your writing and your emotional state. This behavior right now, tracking down every recent post I've made and sniping anonymously at each one in some perverse attempt at revenge is just... juvenile. You have the emotional maturity of a ten-year-old. What next? Do you track me down and stalk me across the entire Internet? Will that finally make you feel powerful?
I have to wonder, though: how much potentially constructive personal time are you going to squander trying to (in your own mind) destroy me? You aren't powerful enough to truly make me go away, vanish from even Slashdot much less the Internet or the face of the Earth, so what's your endgame here? Do you honestly think what you're doing is going to cause me to run away in shame?
Find something constructive to do with your time. This isn't it.
This is now the seventh post of mine that you've spammed in the last 15 minutes, on top of the earlier more scattered snipes. You're escalating. Does it give you some sense of power now to stalk and snipe at me pseudo-anonymously because I had the temerity and lack of diplomacy to criticize your behavior in public? Grow up and get over it. I called you fucked-up in so many words because you are fucked-up, significantly enough that it affects both your writing and your emotional state. This behavior right now, tracking down every recent post I've made and sniping anonymously at each one in some perverse attempt at revenge is just... juvenile. You have the emotional maturity of a ten-year-old. What next? Do you track me down and stalk me across the entire Internet? Will that finally make you feel powerful?
I have to wonder, though: how much potentially constructive personal time are you going to squander trying to (in your own mind) destroy me? You aren't powerful enough to truly make me go away, vanish from even Slashdot much less the Internet or the face of the Earth, so what's your endgame here? Do you honestly think what you're doing is going to cause me to run away in shame?
Find something constructive to do with your time. This isn't it.
You don't really grok "economy of scale" and how it arrives there in the first place, do you? And you can't claim being new here as a defense, but then your argument didn't really arise out of true ignorance in the first place, did it?
"The cranium is well designed to protect the brain in life and can, under the right circumstances, remain on duty long after the normal expectation of service," he said.
"Normal expectation of service"! Gotta remember that one.
Or by "APK"... for the second time today.
... you'll see that the latest version for Windows is 3.2.
I clearly stated that I checked for a pushed update, which the software told me didn't exist. This new version isn't being pushed to existing installs (yet). I even spent a few minutes rummaging on the uTorrent site looking for a current version number, but I didn't get to that particular download page and they're not very forthcoming about it anywhere else... so I didn't know. I even downloaded it from a different link - with no description of the version - intending to check the file properties for a clue, but I got distracted by something more shiny. If I'd done that I also would have found the new version.
No matter... I've disabled the automatic updating today, so I won't be seeing it any time soon, and I certainly won't be executing that download. I'll be terminating it, with prejudice.
No, I don't have uTorrent for OSX. I have it installed natively in Windows 7 x64, no VMs or bootcamps anywhere in sight. I don't know what I said that provoked that conclusion, but you concluded incorrectly. I've never even bothered trying any of the streaming features and don't know much of anything about them, other than the barest knowledge that they exist. For me they're not a killer feature; I do a real good impression of a person demonstrating infinite patience.
Use the hosts file!
So is that all it is, then? I've had that tab/feature disabled in Options for so long that I'd forgotten about it. I also disabled the Apps section and even the sidebar, since it's not relevant to the way I use it.
No matter. If they do decide to take a hard sell approach I'll find a way to mitigate it or find another app to do the job. I'm willing to pay/donate a bit for what the software does for me, but I'm not willing to tolerate blatant advertising. (Reminds me of some episodes of the past season of the reimagined Hawaii Five-O series, wherein some of the "product placement" was so excessive it made me throw up in my mouth a little every time.)
For better or worse, you really aren't neurotypical. Apparently for the worse, given the largely incoherent scrawl above and the other online examples of your attempts at communicating I've belatedly found. The software may be nifty, but I can't readily trust software from someone with a personality more borderline than Hans Reiser. There are plenty of other methods and tools to manage the hosts file and blocklists in general, whose authors aren't nearly so... provocative.
... because I've checked repeatedly for the latest version and there are no updates (v3.1.3 build 27220), yet there are simply no 'sponsored torrents' nor any advertising of any sort to see. As far as I can tell this is vaporware and much ado about something that hasn't actually happened. Did they somehow selectively roll it out to a certain demographic group, like maybe people whose default browser is Internet Explorer or whose browser isn't configured to request do-not-track?
Or maybe... my cranial powers and dislike of hard-sell advertising are both so staggering that I'm simply subconsciously willing these sponsored torrents not to appear? Yeah, that must be it....
What, like Farmville, Oil Tycoon, Poacher Paradise, Sim 419, and Love(...Not) Connection?
The most consistent cure for chronic depression is chronic self-delusion. Everybody knows it but nobody wants to talk about it because that would burst the bubble and make everybody depressed.
Not good enuf! Wanna see it on a newspaper with today's date and you holding up three fingers (no, not one).
I got one!
Pics or it didn't happen.
I'm tone deaf, you insensitive clod! They never made a movie "The Sound of Monotony".
Many security questions are a failure from the start due to poor selection. While one would expect that a security question would challenge an objective fact, many of them don't. Instead they challenge subjective facts, most often "favorite" things. What happens to a person's answers when his mental list of favorite things has changed? I've encountered some instances where these "favorite" questions were so prevalent that there wasn't even one objective question as a choice. While it's true that "favorites" might be less susceptible to data mining than objective facts, the last thing security questions should ever do is create the possibility that the legitimate user might be locked out because he can't recall what his "favorite" was at the time of the account's creation. This is akin to the bad habit of using e-mail addresses as usernames. What's more, many of these choose very poor subjects that lead to potentially ambiguous answers; there have been many occasions when I couldn't decide the correct answer to a "favorite" question even at the time of creation, much less a year later.