everybody seems to think that different rules apply to fellow-tribesmen than apply to other tribes.
You've pretty much summarized all human society and all human history. Societies succeed harmoniously only as well their members think of themselves all as "us". The moment you get a lot of "them", it's nowhere near as smooth.
So, to bring it back on-topic... this will work well only if one "tribe" completely controls the electrical power production.
I'm willing to bet the winning "tribe" won't be indigenous. It'll be Western, and probably Corporate. Again, the pattern of Niger Delta oil production comes to mind. "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..."
The nice thing about conspiracies is that they can be blamed for everything.
For instance, it's pretty damn near self-evident that the conspiracy would post something just like that. Deflect attention from itself by drawing attention to itself, self-mockingly.
In other words, THAT'S JUST WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK!
Well, by that token, the unqualified statement "Sarah Palin is unelectable" is also literally untrue, since she was an elected state governor.
Yeah, if you qualify it with "at a Federal level" or "outside her own state" (or some other proviso, perhaps based on your opinion of her constituency), you can probably say she's not electable. But you can qualify the jab at Ron Paul too.
Postulate the spherical cow and the solution is always easy.
Don't forget... HAL 9000 had a ground-based testbed "twin", SAL 9000. Too bad they didn't try lying to it about its critical and super-secret mission before doing so to HAL. They only tried that afterward, as a debugging replay.
Wrong! It's a common confusion, based on color and toxicity, but (A) the half-life of Uranium-238 is a mere 4 1/2 billion years, whereas Twinkies will last at least 10 time longer; and (B) yellowcake is a bit sweeter, but lacks the "creme" filling.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink, no matter how long you hold its head under water.
I find the use of phrases like "educate the higher-ups" charmingly naive. They're higher-ups. They don't need anything from you but compliance and endless status reports. And GOD FORBID if you somehow get the idea that you know something they don't.
In other words, your statistical sample of exactly one is not useful. The singular of "data" is not "anecdote". Dilbert is non-fiction.
If your employer wants you to read work email on a mobile device, make them issue one.
Don't run your personal mobile's wireless through the company access points. Use your damn 3g/4g data plan for that.
Seriously. If it's your data, your employer has no business going anywhere near it or the devices that contain it, and you don't let them get that impression by never giving them a sniff of the thing.
Your port unions would not like how all the ship traffic is now going to the ports in adjacent country "X" with much less stringent standards. Ditto for the manufacturer in your country who now has to transship materials or products through your border with "X", which may or may not trigger tariffs. And maybe the manufacturer will take his factory down there?
Global economics is a race to the bottom, operating-cost-wise. The global economy treats imposed costs as censorship and routes around it.
Now, hold on. There is a positive impact on the technology. It's just diffuse.
Score high on Top500. Work that into your marketing. Make better sales. Profit!!
OK, no technology so far. Bear with me.
Divert a tiny portion of your Profit!!, after executive compensation and high-priced lobbying and election-buying, after dividends, after management bonuses, after unwise merger and acquisition activity... After all that, divert a small portion of the Profit!! into R&D. The technology advances... a tiny bit. But the journey of 1,000 miles starts with the first baby-step.
See? Top500 definitely advances technology, for sufficiently small values of "advances".
Ever heard of a directional wave. It's not trivial but definitely possible to disable cell transmission to a single sector of a car.
Because the antenna of a cell used by a driver is always located in the vicinity of the driver's seat.
Oh, wait, that's pathetically wrong. Any car with a built-in communication system is already exempt from your brilliant suggestion. So is any hand-held cell phone with any kind of headset or hands-off capability, if it's clipped or placed anywhere in the car other than the driver's seat or console. Like the dash board in the front passenger's vicinity.
"Directional waves". Lol.
And btw, assuming you meant that first sentence as a rhetorical question, even rhetorical questions end with a question mark, don'tcha know?
Even if they're passengers, there's no technology available (now or ever) which can distinguish between a cell being used by a driver and a cell being used by a passenger. Selective disabling is not possible, so passengers will also be affected.
In large American markets, business and residential white pages are distinct volumes. But presumably the "ditch white pages" argument includes the business listings.
I have never seen anything generally characterized as a "recipe" which was strictly a list of ingredients. There is always a body of imperative text giving instructions on what to do with all those ingredients. Even if the ingredient list portion by itself is uncopyrightable, the instructions certainly must be.
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everybody seems to think that different rules apply to fellow-tribesmen than apply to other tribes.
You've pretty much summarized all human society and all human history. Societies succeed harmoniously only as well their members think of themselves all as "us". The moment you get a lot of "them", it's nowhere near as smooth.
So, to bring it back on-topic... this will work well only if one "tribe" completely controls the electrical power production.
I'm willing to bet the winning "tribe" won't be indigenous. It'll be Western, and probably Corporate. Again, the pattern of Niger Delta oil production comes to mind. "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..."
And that's a good point. Forbidden docs floating around in a darknet doesn't constitute "public dissemination".
OTOH, I find the sequence "Woodward, Bernstein, Assange" distasteful.
for the same reasons a "vegetarian" eats "vegetables".
Super Tofu Boy is safe from me*!
*No, not really. Tofu can be a fine additional ingredient in numerous recipes based on large amounts of meat. Case in point.
or 0xDEADBEEF0BADBABE
The nice thing about conspiracies is that they can be blamed for everything.
For instance, it's pretty damn near self-evident that the conspiracy would post something just like that. Deflect attention from itself by drawing attention to itself, self-mockingly.
In other words, THAT'S JUST WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK!
Well, by that token, the unqualified statement "Sarah Palin is unelectable" is also literally untrue, since she was an elected state governor.
Yeah, if you qualify it with "at a Federal level" or "outside her own state" (or some other proviso, perhaps based on your opinion of her constituency), you can probably say she's not electable. But you can qualify the jab at Ron Paul too.
Postulate the spherical cow and the solution is always easy.
Don't forget... HAL 9000 had a ground-based testbed "twin", SAL 9000. Too bad they didn't try lying to it about its critical and super-secret mission before doing so to HAL. They only tried that afterward, as a debugging replay.
I know I'm not a lawyer... and I know better than to try to make up new IP rights on the fly.
Wrong! It's a common confusion, based on color and toxicity, but (A) the half-life of Uranium-238 is a mere 4 1/2 billion years, whereas Twinkies will last at least 10 time longer; and (B) yellowcake is a bit sweeter, but lacks the "creme" filling.
And also, the yellowcake is a yellow lie.
Laws are not repealed by going out and breaking more laws.
Of course they are.
Quite effectively, too.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink, no matter how long you hold its head under water.
I find the use of phrases like "educate the higher-ups" charmingly naive. They're higher-ups. They don't need anything from you but compliance and endless status reports. And GOD FORBID if you somehow get the idea that you know something they don't.
In other words, your statistical sample of exactly one is not useful. The singular of "data" is not "anecdote". Dilbert is non-fiction.
was the first mistake.
If your employer wants you to read work email on a mobile device, make them issue one.
Don't run your personal mobile's wireless through the company access points. Use your damn 3g/4g data plan for that.
Seriously. If it's your data, your employer has no business going anywhere near it or the devices that contain it, and you don't let them get that impression by never giving them a sniff of the thing.
Your port unions would not like how all the ship traffic is now going to the ports in adjacent country "X" with much less stringent standards. Ditto for the manufacturer in your country who now has to transship materials or products through your border with "X", which may or may not trigger tariffs. And maybe the manufacturer will take his factory down there?
Global economics is a race to the bottom, operating-cost-wise. The global economy treats imposed costs as censorship and routes around it.
"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company."
-- Ernestine
In other words, the most loyal customers got the worst treatment.
In still other words, the more shit you take, the more shit you get.
Now, hold on. There is a positive impact on the technology. It's just diffuse.
Score high on Top500. Work that into your marketing. Make better sales. Profit!!
OK, no technology so far. Bear with me.
Divert a tiny portion of your Profit!!, after executive compensation and high-priced lobbying and election-buying, after dividends, after management bonuses, after unwise merger and acquisition activity... After all that, divert a small portion of the Profit!! into R&D. The technology advances... a tiny bit. But the journey of 1,000 miles starts with the first baby-step.
See? Top500 definitely advances technology, for sufficiently small values of "advances".
Won't work. You wouldn't believe the preservatives lembas is laced with. It actually makes Twinkies look organic.
I misread the title of that post. I thought someone was giving away a Wii to whoever was in the right place at the right time.
And delicious golden Brownian motion.
Ever heard of a directional wave. It's not trivial but definitely possible to disable cell transmission to a single sector of a car.
Because the antenna of a cell used by a driver is always located in the vicinity of the driver's seat.
Oh, wait, that's pathetically wrong. Any car with a built-in communication system is already exempt from your brilliant suggestion. So is any hand-held cell phone with any kind of headset or hands-off capability, if it's clipped or placed anywhere in the car other than the driver's seat or console. Like the dash board in the front passenger's vicinity.
"Directional waves". Lol.
And btw, assuming you meant that first sentence as a rhetorical question, even rhetorical questions end with a question mark, don'tcha know?
Even if they're passengers, there's no technology available (now or ever) which can distinguish between a cell being used by a driver and a cell being used by a passenger. Selective disabling is not possible, so passengers will also be affected.
In large American markets, business and residential white pages are distinct volumes. But presumably the "ditch white pages" argument includes the business listings.
How much should be spent to get a few people basic phone connectivity?
In the aggregate, a fair bit.
The question, I guess, is whether the "few" of the "need paper directory" case are valued as highly as the "few" of the Universal Service case.
I have never seen anything generally characterized as a "recipe" which was strictly a list of ingredients. There is always a body of imperative text giving instructions on what to do with all those ingredients. Even if the ingredient list portion by itself is uncopyrightable, the instructions certainly must be.
However, she almost looks overqualified to be a /. editor.
I keed, I keed...